Isothermal isobaric reactive flash problem

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6548-6554

  Ruiz, Gerardo ^a   Sridhar, Lakshmi N ^a   Rengaswamy, Raghunathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOPF BIFURCATIONS; ISOTHERMAL REACTIVE FLASH PROCESSES; NONREACTIVE FLASH PROBLEMS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHEMICAL REACTORS; ETHERS; MIXTURES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SEPARATION;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHEMICAL REACTORS; ETHERS; MIXTURES; SEPARATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EID: 33749186338     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060249a     Document Type: Article

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