Distillation pinch points and more

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1350-1372

  Lucia, Angelo ^a   Amale, Amit ^a   Taylor, Ross ^b  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Pinch point and non pinch solutions; Shortest stripping lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149167714     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.06.019     Document Type: Article

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