Plant-wide design and control of DMC synthesis process via reactive distillation and thermally coupled extractive distillation

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-373

  Wang, San Jang ^a   Yu, Cheng Ching ^b   Huang, Hsiao Ping ^b  

^a TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Control; Design; Extractive distillation; Pressure swing distillation; Reactive distillation; Thermal coupling

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPIC COMPOSITION; CONTROL DESIGN; DESIGN AND CONTROL; DIMETHYL CARBONATE; ETHYLENE CARBONATE; EXTRACTIVE AGENTS; EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION; MANIPULATED VARIABLES; PRODUCT PURITY; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS; STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS PROCESS; THERMAL COUPLING;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; METHANOL; PHENOLS; PROCESS CONTROL;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 75849162993     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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