New HIGEE-rotating zigzag bed and its mass transfer performance

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 8840-8846

  Wang, G Q ^a   Xu, O G ^a   Xu, Z C ^a   Ji, J B ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; METHANOL; ROTATION;

CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRIES; CONTINUOUS DISTILLATIONS; EQUIVALENT MASSES; GAS LIQUIDS; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; HIGH GRAVITIES; MULTIPLE ROTORS; PLATE EFFICIENCIES; PRELIMINARY TESTS; ROTATING PACKINGS; ROTATIONAL PARTS; SCALE SYSTEMS; TRANSFER CAPACITIES; TRANSFER EFFICIENCIES; ZIG ZAGS;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 57249108712     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801020u     Document Type: Article

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