MODELING AND SIMULATION OF A PERVAPORATION PROCESS FOR FATTY ESTER SYNTHESIS

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 199, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1357-1374

  Rewagad, Rohit R ^a   Kiss, Anton A ^b  

^a DSM RESOLVE   (Netherlands)

^b AKZO NOBEL CENTRAL RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Esterification; Ethyl oleate; Maxwell Stefan approach; Pervaporation membrane; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSING SPECIES; ESTERIFICATION REACTIONS; ETHYL OLEATE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FATTY ESTERS; MATHWORKS; MAXWELL-STEFAN APPROACH; MODELING AND SIMULATION; MODELING APPROACH; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PERVAPORATION MEMBRANES; ROBUST MODELING; SOLUTION-DIFFUSION MODEL;

ADSORPTION; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTERS; ETHANOL; EVAPORATION; MATLAB; OLEIC ACID; PERVAPORATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ESTERIFICATION;

EID: 84864666847     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: 15635201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2012.660893     Document Type: Article

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