Simulation of a hybrid pervaporation-distillation process

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1143-1154

  Verhoef, Adrian ^a   Degrève, Jan ^a   Huybrechs, Bart ^a   Van Veen, Henk ^b   Pex, Paul ^b   Van Der Bruggen, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspen Plus; Distillation; Excel VBA; Hybrid process; Pervaporation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349113430     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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