Innovative process for fatty acid esters by dual reactive distillation

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 743-750

  Dimian, Alexandre C ^a   Bildea, C S ^b   Omota, F ^c   Kiss, A A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Conceptual design of chemical processes; Fatty esters; Process simulation; Reactant inventory control; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

BIODIESEL; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DISTILLATION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; INVENTORY CONTROL; WATER ABSORPTION;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESS; FATTY ESTERS; PROCESS SIMULATIONS; REACTANT INVENTORY CONTROL; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 58949087512     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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