Estimation of liquid-liquid-vapor equilibria in binary mixtures of n-alkanes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 5957-5964

  Polishuk, Ilya ^a   Wisniak, Jaime ^b   Segura, Hugo ^c  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; METHANE; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

ETHANE-N-ALKANES; METHANE-N-ALKANES;

PARAFFINS;

ALKANE; BUTANE; ETHANE;

ALKANE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; VAPOR-LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; HYPERBARISM; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPOR;

EID: 4344690646     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049797j     Document Type: Article

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