Towards further internal heat integration in design of reactive distillation columns-Part IV: Application to a high-purity ethylene glycol reactive distillation column

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3498-3509

  Zhu, Fanghong ^a   Huang, Kejin ^a   Wang, Shaofeng ^a   Shan, Lan ^a   Zhu, Qunxiong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ethylene glycol; Internal heat integration; Process design; Process dynamics; Process operation; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL INVESTMENT; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; HIGH SELECTIVITY; HIGH-PURITY; HYDRATION OF ETHYLENE; IN-PROCESS; INTERNAL HEAT INTEGRATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PROCESS DYNAMICS; PROCESS OPERATION; REACTING MIXTURE; REACTION SELECTIVITY; REACTIVE DISTILLATION; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS; SIDE REACTIONS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; UTILITY CONSUMPTION;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION; DYNAMICS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; INTEGRATION; INVESTMENTS; PROCESS DESIGN; REINFORCEMENT; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 67649283534     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.04.031     Document Type: Article

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