Ionic liquid screening for ethylbenzene/styrene separation by extractive distillation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 10800-10810

  Jongmans, Mark T G ^a   Schuur, Boelo ^a   De Haan, André B ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALKYL CHAIN LENGTHS; ANION STRUCTURES; AROMATIC CATIONS; CLOSE-BOILING; DELOCALIZED ELECTRON; EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION; HIGH CAPACITY; HIGH SELECTIVITY; LIQUID LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM; LOCALIZED ELECTRONS; RELATIVE VOLATILITY; SCREENING METHODS; SOLVENT SELECTION; SULFOLANE;

DISTILLATION; ETHYLBENZENE; EXPERIMENTS; NEGATIVE IONS; POSITIVE IONS; STYRENE; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 80052841425     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie2011627     Document Type: Article

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