Distillation profiles in ternary heterogeneous mixtures with distillation boundaries

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 879-893

  Królikowski, Andrzej R ^a   Królikowski, Lechosław J ^b   Wasylkiewicz, Stanisław K ^c  

^a Cargill ^*  (Poland)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Distillation; Distillation boundaries; Heterogeneous mixtures; Packed column; PDB; SDB; TRB

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION BOUNDARIES; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES; PACKED COLUMN; PDB; SDB; TRB;

AZEOTROPES; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BENZENE; BENZENE REFINING; DISTILLATION; ETHANOL; TOLUENE;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 79956368391     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

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