The geometry of separation boundaries: Four-component mixtures

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1770-1778

  Bellows, Meghan ^a   Lucia, Angelo ^a  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Distillation boundaries; Four component mixtures; Levi Civita parallelism; Surface areas

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT MIXTURES; LOCAL MAXIMA; OPTIMIZATION FORMULATION;

AZEOTROPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEPARATION;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

AZEOTROPES; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEPARATION;

EID: 34447527664     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11187     Document Type: Article

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