Selectivity engineering with reactive distillation for dimerization of C4 olefins: Experimental and theoretical studies

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3024-3034

  Talwalkar, Sandip ^a   Mankar, Surendra ^a   Katariya, Amit ^a   Aghalayam, Preeti ^a   Ivanova, Mariyana ^b   Sundmacher, Kai ^b,c   Mahajani, Sanjay ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; DIMERS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OLEFINS;

RATE-BASED SIMULATION MODEL; REACTIVE DISTILLATION (RD); SELECTIVITY ENHANCERS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; DIMERS; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OLEFINS;

EID: 34249108507     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060860+     Document Type: Article

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