A mathematical technique for the design of near-zero-effluent batch processes

Water SA

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 291-295

  Gouws, J F ^a,b   Majozi, T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Future production Chemicals Cluster   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Batch process; Wastewater minimisation; Zero effluent

Indexed keywords

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; MASS TRANSFER; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

BATCH PROCESS; CHEMICAL PROCESS; MINIMISATION; PRODUCT FORMULATION; REUSE OF WASTEWATER; SIMULTANEOUS DESIGNS; TOXIC EFFLUENTS; ZERO EFFLUENTS;

EFFLUENTS;

EFFLUENT; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; WASTEWATER;

EID: 52649150930     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v34i3.180621     Document Type: Article

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