Understanding and revamping of industrial scale SMB units for p-xylene separation

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 138-149

  Minceva, Mirjana ^a   Rodrigues, Alírio E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

p xylene; Separation volume optimization; Simulated moving bed; Unit revamping

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SEPARATION;

P-XYLENE; SEPARATION VOLUME OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED MOVING BED (SMB); UNIT REVAMPING;

XYLENE;

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SEPARATION; XYLENE;

EID: 33846298879     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11062     Document Type: Article

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