Novel micro-distillation column for process development

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 705-710

  Sundberg, Aarne ^a   Uusi Kyyny, Petri ^a   Alopaeus, Ville ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Metal foam; Micro scale distillation; Packing material

Indexed keywords

BOILING-POINT TEMPERATURES; BUILDING BLOCKS; CHEMICAL PROCESS; HEIGHT EQUIVALENT TO A THEORETICAL PLATES; METAL FOAM; MICRO-SCALE DISTILLATION; N HEXANES; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PACKING MATERIAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PURE COMPOUNDS;

BOILING POINT; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DISTILLATION; FOAMS; HEXANE; METALS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 64649103439     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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