Plant-wide design and control of acetic acid dehydration system via heterogeneous azeotropic distillation and divided wall distillation

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-60

  Wang, San Jang ^a   Lee, Chi Ju ^b   Jang, Shi Shang ^b   Shieh, Shyan Shu ^c  

^a TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acetic acid dehydration; Divided wall distillation; Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation; Plant wide control; Plant wide design

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; DEHYDRATION; DISTILLATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

ACETIC ACID DEHYDRATION; DIVIDED WALL DISTILLATION; HETEROGENEOUS AZEOTROPIC DISTILLATION; PLANT-WIDE CONTROL; PLANT-WIDE DESIGN;

PLANT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 36849090603     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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