Reactive distillation in a mixed acid esterification process for biobased chemicals production

AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Orjuela, Alvaro ^a,b   Kolah, Aspi ^a   Hong, Xi ^a   Lira, Carl T ^a   Miller, Dennis J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

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