Novel procedure for production of isopropanol by transesterification of isopropyl acetate with reactive distillation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 13881-13891

  Qiu, Ting ^a   Zhang, Pei ^a   Yang, Jinbei ^a,b   Xiao, Li ^a   Ye, Changshen ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; DISTILLERIES; IODINE COMPOUNDS; METHANOL; MOLAR RATIO; REACTION KINETICS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

CATALYTIC LOADING; FIXED POINT ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEOUS KINETIC MODEL; KINETICS EXPERIMENTS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; REACTIVE DISTILLATION PROCESS; REACTIVE DISTILLATIONS; RESIDUE CURVE MAPS;

PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84907706815     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie5026584     Document Type: Article

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