Effect of relative volatility on the quantitative comparison of reactive distillation and conventional multi-unit systems

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3151-3162

  Kaymak, Devrim B ^a   Luyben, William L ^a   Smith IV, Oliver J ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; FLOWCHARTING; REACTION KINETICS;

MULTI-UNIT SYSTEMS; REACTION RATES; RELATIVE VOLATILITY;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

DISTILLATION COLUMN; ECONOMICS; REACTIVE SEPARATION; VOLATILIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DISTILLATION; ENERGY; HEAT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIQUID; REACTION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

EID: 2642521305     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie040051v     Document Type: Article

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