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Identifying Multiple Steady States In The Design Of Reactive Distillation Processes, Thomas Karl Mills
Identifying Multiple Steady States In The Design Of Reactive Distillation Processes, Thomas Karl Mills
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"Global homotopy continuation is used to identify multiple steady states in ideal reactive flash and reactive distillation systems involving a reaction of the form A+B [symbol for <--> C taking place in the liquid phase. The choice of specifications has an influence on the existence of multiple solutions for both the flash and the column. For the flash, specification of the heat input or withdrawal can give rise to multiplicities while specification of the split fraction does not. Specification of one internal energy balance variable and one external material balance variable does not produce multiplicities in the column; however, specification of …-->