Control of Highly Interconnected Reactive Distillation Processes: Purification of Raw Lactic Acid by Esterification and Hydrolysis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 54, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 6932-6940

  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

CONTROLLERS; DISTILLATION; ESTERS; HYDROLYSIS; LACTIC ACID; METHANOL; RECYCLING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

COMPOSITION CONTROL; COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS; CONTROLLER OUTPUTS; PLANTWIDE CONTROL; PROCESS FLOWSHEETS; REACTIVE DISTILLATION PROCESS; RECYCLE STREAM; SUBSEQUENT HYDROLYSIS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84937046475     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie5039133     Document Type: Article

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