Separation Units

Microchemical Engineering in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 131-163

  Gavriilidis, Asterios ^a   Shaw, John Edward Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Distillation; Gases; Separations; Stripping

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BARK STRIPPING; ENGINEERING; GASES; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; SEPARATION;

SEPARATION UNITS;

DISTILLATION;

EID: 78751524074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470431870.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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