Energy saving and capital cost evaluation in distillation column sequences with a divided wall column

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1649-1657

  Errico, Massimiliano ^a   Tola, Giuseppe ^a   Rong, Ben Guang ^b   Demurtas, Daniele ^a   Turunen, Ilkka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Divided wall column; Fully thermally coupled structure; Multicomponent distillation; Petlyuk column

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL COSTS; COUPLED STRUCTURES; DISTILLATION TOWERS; ENERGY REDUCTION; ENERGY SAVING; FULLY THERMALLY COUPLED STRUCTURE; HYBRID STRUCTURE; INPUT DATAS; MULTICOMPONENTS; RIGOROUS SIMULATION; THREE COMPONENT;

COSTS; DISTILLATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 71649105845     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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