Esterification of acrylic acid and n-butanol in a pilot-scale reactive distillation column-experimental investigation, model validation, and process analysis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 16444-16456

  Niesbach, Alexander ^a   Fuhrmeister, Ron ^a   Keller, Tobias ^a   Lutze, Philip ^a   Górak, Andrzej ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL SYSTEMS; COMPLEX THERMODYNAMICS; COST-INTENSIVE; CURRENT PRODUCTION; MODEL VALIDATION; N-BUTANOL; N-BUTYL ACRYLATE; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; OPTIMIZATION STUDIES; PILOT SCALE; PROCESS ANALYSIS; PROCESS INTENSIFICATION; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

ALCOHOLS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DISTILLATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 84871326049     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie301934w     Document Type: Article

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