Holistic approach to process retrofitting: Application to downstream process for biochemical production of organics

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4200-4207

  Liu, Jiahong ^a   Fan, L T ^a   Seib, Paul ^b   Friedler, Ferenc ^c   Bertok, Botond ^c  

^a Kansas State University   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PRODUCTIONS; CONVENTIONAL DOWNSTREAM PROCESS; FLOWSHEET NETWORK STRUCTURES;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; GRAPH THEORY; RETROFITTING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ALCOHOLS;

ALCOHOLS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; GRAPH THEORY; RETROFITTING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 33745662666     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie051014m     Document Type: Article

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