Conceptual design of single-feed hybrid reactive distillation columns

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 4377-4395

  Dragomir, Ramona M ^a   Jobson, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical processes; Design; Hybrid column; Process synthesis; Reactive distillation; Stage composition lines

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISTILLATION; GRAPH THEORY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GRAPHICAL TECHNIQUES; NON-REACTIVE DISTILLATION PROCESSES; REACTION-SEPERATION SYSTEMS; SINGLE-FEED HYBRID REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMN;

EID: 19344376498     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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