A novel type of equipment for reactive distillation: Model development, simulation, sensitivity and error analysis

AIChE Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1533-1543

  von Harbou, Erik ^a   Schmitt, Markus ^b   Großmann, Christoph ^b   Hasse, Hans ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data reconciliation; Modeling and simulation; Reactive distillation; Sensitivity analysis; Tray

Indexed keywords

DATA RECONCILIATION; EQUILIBRIUM STAGE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; MODELING AND SIMULATION; PLUG FLOW REACTOR MODELS; PREDICTIVE SIMULATIONS; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS; TRAY;

DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; LABORATORIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84876332118     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.13947     Document Type: Article

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