Optimal design of staged three-phase reactive distillation columns using nonequilibrium and orthogonal collocation models

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3275-3285

  Damartzis, Theodoros ^a   Seferlis, Panos ^a,b  

^a Centre for Research Technology Hellas   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; APPROXIMATION CAPABILITIES; BUTYL ACETATE; COMPLEX PROCESSES; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; ESTERIFICATION REACTIONS; FEED POINT; LIQUID PHASE; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS; MODEL REDUCTION; NON EQUILIBRIUM; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMAL COLUMN; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; ORTHOGONAL COLLOCATION; ORTHOGONAL COLLOCATION ON FINITE ELEMENTS; PHASE-TRANSITION BOUNDARY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS SYSTEM; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS; REACTIVE DISTILLATION SYSTEMS; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS; THIRD PHASE; THREE-PHASE REGIONS;

COMPLEXATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; DISTILLATION; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LIQUIDS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 77950433532     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901260b     Document Type: Article

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