EXPLORATION OF RESIDUE CURVE MAP TOPOLOGIES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS

Residue curve maps of quaternary or multicomponent mixtures is difficult to explore because natural imagination cannot be used in these cases. Instead, use of combinatorial topology is suggested. Non-existence of degenerated singularities is supposed and the trajectory bundles are analyzed. Based on some bounding properties of the directed cycles, occurring in the analyzed structures, a combinatorial algorithm is sketched for determining the k-dimension separatrices and the bounded distillation regions.