Optimal conceptual design of processes with heterogeneous catalytic reactors

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 438-449

  Montolio Rodriguez, Daniel ^a   Linke, Patrick ^a,b   Linke, David ^c   Stijepovic, Mirko Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR KATALYSE E V AN DER UNIVERSITÄT ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous catalysis; Process synthesis; Reaction engineering; Styrene; Superstructure optimisation

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC REACTOR; DESIGN COMPLEXITY; DESIGN ENGINEERS; DESIGN FEATURES; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE DESIGN; MULTI-LEVEL; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; PERFORMANCE TARGETS; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; REACTION ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; STYRENE PRODUCTION;

CATALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; ENGINEERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE INTERFACES; STYRENE;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 77956650244     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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