Novel procedure for coproduction of ethyl acetate and n- butyl acetate by reactive distillation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5535-5541

  Tian, Hui ^a   Zheng, Huidong ^a   Huang, Zhixian ^a   Qiu, Ting ^a   Wu, Yanxiang ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PURIFICATION; ASPEN PLUS; BUTYL ACETATE; CO-PRODUCTION; ETHYL ACETATES; FEED MOLAR RATIO; N-BUTANOL; N-BUTYL ACETATE; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS; TOTAL ANNUAL COSTS;

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOLS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ETHANOL;

VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

EID: 84859916984     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie202154x     Document Type: Article

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