Roots of the Underwood's equations in short-cut distillation from a companion matrix eigenvalues

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 76, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-13

  Monroy Loperena, Rosendo ^a,b   Vacahern, Miguel ^c  

^a ROMON   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA AZCAPOTZALCO   (Mexico)

^c Division de Ingenieria Quimica y Bioquimica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chemical processes; Design; Distillation; Generalized eigenvalue problem; Minimum reflux; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMPANION MATRIX; COMPLEX COLUMNS; DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; HARD TASK; INITIAL GUESS; MINIMUM-REFLUX; POLYNOMIAL FORM; REFLUX RATIO; SIDE PRODUCTS; SIDE STREAMS;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 84860180194     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.03.025     Document Type: Article

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