Comprehensive mass transfer model for distillation columns equipped with structured packings

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 7967-7976

  Del Carlo, Lorenzo ^a,b   Olujić, Zarko ^b   Paglianti, Alessandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP;

MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MECHANISTIC MODEL; SEMIEMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; STRUCTURED PACKINGS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 33751570061     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060503z     Document Type: Article

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