Analysis of the environmental impact of butylacetate process through the WAR algorithm

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 5839-5845

  Cardona, C A ^a,b   Marulanda, V F ^a,b   Young, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Pollution control; Product design; Reaction engineering; WAR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BUTYLACETATE PROCESS; POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT (PEI); REACTIVE DISTILLATION PROCESS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 9944256498     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.06.043     Document Type: Article

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