Bioethanol recovery and purification using extractive dividing-wall column and pressure swing adsorption: An economic comparison after heat integration and optimization

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 149, Issue , 2015, Pages 413-427

  Loy, Y Y ^a   Lee, X L ^a   Rangaiah, G P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Economies of scale; Extractive dividing wall column; Optimization; Pressure swing adsorption

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIOETHANOL; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISTILLATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; PURIFICATION; RECOVERY;

DIVIDING WALL COLUMNS; ECONOMIC COMPARISONS; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

ETHANOL;

EID: 84934890418     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: 18733794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2015.06.007     Document Type: Article

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