Towards further internal heat integration in design of reactive distillation columns-Part III: Application to a MTBE reactive distillation column

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2119-2134

  Huang, Kejin ^a   Wang, San Jang ^b   Ding, Wenming ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distillation; Internal heat integration; Process control; Process design; Process dynamics; Process synthesis

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

INTERNAL HEAT INTEGRATION; PROCESS SYNTHESIS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS; HEAT TRANSFER; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 41249094537     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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