Designing reactive distillation processes: Present and future

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1997-2020

  Almeida Rivera, C P ^a   Swinkels, P L J ^a   Grievink, J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Distillation lines; Heuristics; Optimisation based methods; Reactive distillation; Residue curves

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

INTEGRATED DESIGN METHODOLOGY; REACTIVE DISTILLATION (RD) PROCESSES;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE;

ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 3543019720     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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