@inproceedings{Agarwal2006,
abstract={Reactive distillation (RD), a combination of reaction and separation, holds the potential of giving selectivity/yield much above that offered by the conventional reactors or combination of them. It can be effectively used to improve selectivity of a reaction especially when an intermediate product is desired in series or parallel reactions. In this work, some representative model systems are introduced to obtain attainable region. A series as well as a combination of series parallel reactions (irreversible and mixture of reversible and irreversible reaction systems) were studied with the proposed models and it was found that for the single reactant ideal systems one can obtain almost 100% selectivity for a near quantitative conversion, which is much greater than that obtained in the conventional reactors like PFR and CSTR. These models were also studied for the non-ideal azeotropic systems and it was found that there is a limit to feasible region. The results obtained in the theoretical analysis are supported by experiments on aldol condensation of acetone.
},
author = {Agarwal, Vishal and Thotla, Suman and Mahajani, Sanjay M},
booktitle = {Symposium A Quarterly Journal In Modern Foreign Literatures},
file = {:home/vishal/Documents/lab 107/Bibs of papers/Journal papers/paper006.pdf:pdf},
keywords = {acetone,attainable regions,conceptual design,reactive distillation},
number = {152},
pages = {73--87},
title = {{Selectivity Engineering With Reactive Distillation : Determination of Attainable Region}},
year = {2006}
}