Preliminary design of reactive distillation columns

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 83, Issue 4 A, 2005, Pages 379-400

  Thery, R ^a   Meyer, XuanMi ^a   Joulia, X ^a   Meyer, M ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉNIE CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Feasibility analysis; Process design; Process synthesis; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

ETHERS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS; METHYL ACETATE; METHYL-TERT-BUTYL-ETHER (MTBE); RACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DESIGN; DISTILLATION COLUMN; FEASIBILITY STUDY;

EID: 18444408695     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/cherd.04112     Document Type: Article

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