The design and operation issues for reactive distillation systems are considerably more
complex than those involved for either conventional reactors or conventional distillation …

JD Seader is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. He
received BS and MS degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph. D. from …

In the last years chemical process industries have shown permanently increasing interest in
the development of reactive separation processes (RSP) combining reaction and separation …

• H stands for heat or enthalpy balances (processes conserve energy, as well as mass).
There are few mathematical models in any branch of engineering that are as well-suited to …

This study presents a novel design methodology for the feasibility and technical evaluation
of reactive distillation (RD), and discusses the applicability of various design methods of RD …

The optimal design of staged distillation units with chemical reactions is determined using a
modeling approach that facilitates both rigorous optimization and sensitivity analysis with …

A model of absorption and stripping columns is developed for post-combustion CO2 capture
in amine solvents. The model is based on a rigorous thermodynamic framework, the …

We have carried out a step-by-step design study of a reactive distillation (RD) column for
synthesis of tertiary-amyl ether (TAME) in order to investigate the influence of the choice of …

We have developed a nonequilibrium model for heterogeneous catalytic distillation in which
we have explicitly taken into account simultaneous mass transfer and reaction inside the …

In this paper we develop a generic, dynamic, nonequilibrium (NEQ) stage model for reactive
distillation (RD) columns. The main features of our model are:(1) use of the Maxwell–Stefan …