Transacetalization of glycerol with methylal by reactive distillation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 13021-13036

  Hasabnis, Amit ^a   Mahajani, Sanjay ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBERLYST-15; BATCH KINETICS; EQUILIBRIUM STAGE MODEL; FEED MOLE RATIO; KINETIC MODELS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS;

DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTS; GLYCEROL;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 84867636857     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie300403k     Document Type: Article

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