Can the operating leaves of a distillation column really be expanded?

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7511-7519

  Modise, Tshepo S ^a   Tapp, Michaela ^a   Hildebrandt, Diane ^a   Glasser, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSITION; DISTILLATION; REACTION KINETICS;

CONSTANT REFLUX; POINT CURVES; REBOIL RATIOS; RESIDUE CURVES;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DISTILLATION COLUMN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

EID: 25844442443     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0488086     Document Type: Article

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