Approximating the minimum reflux ratio of multicomponent distillation columns based on the Adomian decomposition method

Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 880-886

  Fatoorehchi, Hooman ^a,b   Abolghasemi, Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b R and D Division   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adomian decomposition; Distillation column; Mathematical modeling; Shanks transform; Underwood's equations

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ADOMIAN DECOMPOSITION; ADOMIAN DECOMPOSITION METHOD; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; MINIMUM REFLUXES; MULTICOMPONENT DISTILLATIONS; NONLINEAR CONVERGENCE; SHANKS TRANSFORMS; UNDERWOOD'S EQUATIONS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 84895921108     PISSN: 18761070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2013.09.032     Document Type: Article

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