Design and control of dimethyl carbonate-methanol separation via extractive distillation in the dimethyl carbonate reactive-distillation process

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 735-749

  Hsu, Kai Yi ^a   Hsiao, Yuan Chang ^a   Chien, I Lung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPIC COMPOSITION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; COPRODUCT; DESIGN AND CONTROL; DIMETHYL CARBONATE; DISTILLATION PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; ETHYLENE CARBONATE; EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION; FEED STREAMS; IMPURITIES IN; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; PROCESS SIMULATIONS; PRODUCT PURITY; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS; RELATIVE VOLATILITY; SEPARATION PROCESS; TRAY TEMPERATURE;

CARBONATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LITHIUM BATTERIES; METHANOL; PROCESS CONTROL;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 75249096856     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901157g     Document Type: Article

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