Pais, Luís S.Rodrigues, Alírio2010-01-302010-01-302001Pais, L.S.; Rodrigues, A.E. (2001). Chiral separation by simulated moving bed chromatography: comparison between configurations using a low number of columns. In 8th International Chemical Engineering Conference. CHEMPOR’. Aveiro. p.1201-1206http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1582Recent applications in the pharmaceutical industry use SMB systems containing a low total number of columns, usually four to eight. The objective of this work is to evaluate and compare the performance of SMB systems with a low number of columns. Simulation results will be shown for SMB units with 4, 5, and 6 columns. Also the two strategies of modeling, TMB and SMB, will be compared for these configurations.engSimulated moving bedModeling and simulationLow number of columnsconference paper