Production of iso-amyl acetate: Heterogeneous kinetics and techno-feasibility evaluation for catalytic distillation

International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Saha, B ^a   Alqahtani, A ^a   Teo, H T R ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetic acid; Catalytic distillation; Esterification; Ion exchange resins; Iso amyl acetate; Iso amyl alcohol; Kinetic modeling; residue curve map

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944495846     PISSN: 21945748     EISSN: 15426580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-6580.1231     Document Type: Article

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