Designing a packed dividing wall column for an aromatics processing plant

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5680-5692

  Dejanović, Igor ^a   Matijašević, Ljubica ^a   Jansen, Helmut ^b   Olujić, Žarko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Julius Montz GmbH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNS; CORRUGATED SHEETS; COST ESTIMATIONS; DIVIDING WALL COLUMNS; EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS; INITIAL VALUES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMALITY; PERFORMANCE SIMULATION; PROCESSING PLANTS; PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS; SERIES CONFIGURATION; STRUCTURED PACKINGS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; PAPER SHEETING; PROFITABILITY; STAGES;

AROMATIZATION;

EID: 79955526223     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie1020206     Document Type: Article

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