A synthesis method for multicomponent distillation sequences with fewer columns

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2479-2494

  Shenvi, Anirudh A ^a   Shah, Vishesh H ^a   Zeller, Jeremy A ^a   Agrawal, Rakesh ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distillation configurations; Distillation sequences; Less than n 1 columns; Matrix method; Multicomponent distillation

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION SEQUENCES; EIGHT COMPONENT; MATRIX METHODS; MULTICOMPONENTS; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; PRODUCT STREAMS; SEARCH SPACES; SYNTHESIS METHOD;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 84863601302     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12752     Document Type: Article

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