Plant-wide economic comparison of lactic acid recovery processes by reactive distillation with different alcohols

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 11070-11083

  Su, Chien Yuan ^a   Yu, Cheng Ching ^a   Chien, I Lung ^a   Ward, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC COMPARISONS; ENTRAINER; FERMENTATION BROTHS; ISOPROPYL ALCOHOLS; LACTIC ACID RECOVERY; PAYBACK PERIODS; PLANT WIDES; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS;

INVESTMENTS;

LACTIC ACID;

EID: 84882436642     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie303192x     Document Type: Article

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