Experimental model validation for n-propyl propionate synthesis in a reactive distillation column coupled with a liquid-liquid phase separator

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4889-4900

  Keller, T ^a   Muendges, J ^a   Jantharasuk, A ^a,b   Gonzalez Rugerio C A ^a   Moritz, H ^a,c   Kreis, P ^a,d   Gorak A ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c BYK Chemie GmbH   (Germany)

^d EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalytic distillation; Data reconciliation; Liquid liquid phase separation; Modelling; Pilot scale experiments; Rate based model

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC DISTILLATION; DATA RECONCILIATION; LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION; MODELLING; PILOT-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; RATE-BASED MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTS; LIQUIDS; PHASE SEPARATION; PIPE FLOW; SEPARATORS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 80051684276     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.06.056     Document Type: Article

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