A fundamental principle and systematic procedures for process intensification in reactive distillation columns

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 294-311

  Huang, Kejin ^a   Lin, Quanquan ^a   Shao, Huan ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Wang, Shaofeng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Internal energy integration; Internal mass integration; Process design; Process intensification; Process synthesis; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; INTERNAL ENERGIES; MASS INTEGRATION; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; INTEGRATION; INVESTMENTS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROCESS DESIGN; REACTION RATES; STRIPPING (DYES); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 77950299313     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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