Modeling and simulation of a reactive dividing wall column for gasoline additive ethers synthesis in the oil refinery

CHISA 2006 - 17th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bumbac, Gheorghe ^a   Plesu, Valentin ^a   Isopescu, Raluca ^a   Ivanescu, Ion ^b   Simion, Constantin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b PETROM SA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Computer aided process engineering; Dividing wall column; Light hydrocarbon separation; Plant design; Process simulation; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GASOLINE; OLEFINS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; REACTION KINETICS;

COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING; DIVIDING WALL COLUMN; LIGHT HYDROCARBON SEPARATION; OIL REFINERY; PLANT DESIGN; PROCESS SIMULATION; REACTIVE DISTILLATION;

ETHERS;

EID: 85060509662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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