Simultaneous optimal design of an extractive column and ionic liquid for the separation of bioethanol-water mixtures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5866-5880

  Valencia Marquez, Darinel ^a   Flores Tlacuahuac, Antonio ^a   Vasquez Medrano, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPIC MIXTURE; AZEOTROPIC SEPARATION; EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GREEN SOLVENTS; HAZARDOUS SOLVENTS; HIGH PURITY; INDUSTRIAL SOLVENTS; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; NEW PRODUCT; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMAL PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION TOOLS; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; SIMULTANEOUS DESIGNS; SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMAL DESIGN; STRONG INTERACTION;

BIOETHANOL; ETHANOL; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROFITABILITY; SEPARATION; SOLVENTS;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84860491502     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie201726r     Document Type: Conference Paper

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