Optimization on the etherification of glycerol with tert-butyl alcohol

Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 760-767

  Chang, Jyh Shyong ^a   Chen, Dung Huei ^a  

^a TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Etherification; Global optimization; Process monitoring; Radial basis functions

Indexed keywords

CATALYST LOADINGS; CONTROL VARIABLE; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; ETHERIFICATION; ETHERIFICATION REACTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GLOBAL OPTIMIZER; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPTIMIZING ALGORITHM; OXYGENATED ADDITIVE; PROCESSING VARIABLES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RBF MODEL; REACTING MIXTURE; REACTING TEMPERATURE; SOLID ACID CATALYSTS; SYSTEMATIC OPTIMIZATION; TERT-BUTYL ALCOHOLS; VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS;

ALCOHOL FUELS; ALGORITHMS; CATALYSTS; DIESEL FUELS; ETHERS; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; GLYCEROL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PROCESS MONITORING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; STAINLESS STEEL;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80052964486     PISSN: 18761070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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