Using turbine expanders to recover exothermic reaction heat - Flow sheet development for typical chemical processes

Energy

Volumn 29, Issue 12-15 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 2045-2060

  Greeff, I L ^a   Visser, J A ^a   Ptasinski, K J ^b   Janssen, F J J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER;

EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; FLOW SHEETS; TURBINE EXPANDERS;

STEAM TURBINES;

COMPRESSOR; HEAT EXCHANGER; RECOVERY TECHNIQUE; STEAM TURBINE;

EID: 9544234516     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2004.03.048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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