Design and control of transesterification reactive distillation with thermal coupling

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3030-3037

  Wang, San Jang ^a   Wong, David S H ^b   Yu, Shuh Woei ^c  

^a TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Control; Design; Reactive distillation; Thermal coupling; Transesterification

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); DISTILLATION; ESTERIFICATION; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; METHANOL; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

CONTROL; DESIGN; REACTIVE DISTILLATION; THERMAL COUPLING; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 53149084890     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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