Recycle selection for homogeneous azeotropic distillation sequences

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4641-4655

  Liu, Guilian ^a,c   Jobson, Megan ^a   Smith, Robin ^a   Wahnschafft, Oliver M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPIC MIXTURE; DISTILLATION SEQUENCE; RECYCLES; SINGULAR POINT COMPOSITION;

COMPOSITION; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; MIXTURES; RECYCLING;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION;

EID: 22444447252     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049402w     Document Type: Article

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