Reactive distillation for fischer-tropsch synthesis: Feasible solution space

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6350-6361

  Srinivas, Seethamraju ^a   Mahajani, Sanjay M ^a   Malik, Ranjan K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPEN PLUS; CATALYST LOADINGS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; MULTI-PARAMETER SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS; REFLUX RATIO; REGIONS OF INTEREST; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

DISTILLATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77957994860     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100106u     Document Type: Article

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