Optimal retrofit design of extractive distillation to energy efficient thermally coupled distillation scheme

AIChE Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1175-1182

  Van Duc Long, Nguyen ^a   Lee, Moonyong ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distillation process retrofit; Process integration; Response surface methodology; Thermally coupled azeotrope distillation; Thermally coupled extractive distillation

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPIC MIXTURE; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DISTILLATION PROCESS; EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION; PROCESS INTEGRATION; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; RIGOROUS SIMULATION; THERMALLY COUPLED DISTILLATION SCHEMES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MIXTURES; OPTIMIZATION; RETROFITTING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DISTILLATION;

EID: 84875371016     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.13906     Document Type: Article

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