Process intensification (PI) is an emerging concept in chemical engineering that describes
the design innovations that lead to significant shrinkage in size and boost in efficiency of a …

This perspective paper features the process intensification (PI) application for advanced
distillation-based processes. Starting with the historical background of generic PI, we …

In order to achieve net-zero emissions until 2050, it is of utmost importance to improve the
energy efficiency and thereby reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in the chemical …

Crude distillation, with a long history of research and commercial improvements, is
perceived to be a mature separation technology with minimal scope of improvement. By …

Surrogate-based optimization of distillation columns using an iterative Kriging approach is
investigated. To avoid suboptimal local minima the focus lies on deterministic global …

The thermally coupled, dividing wall column, and side-stream configurations are some of the
energy-intensified techniques widely applied to the extractive distillation for improving the …

The concept of process intensification (PI) focusses on the creation of safe and compact
energy and cost effective technologies and processes for a more sustainable chemical …

We propose a general framework for the formulation of superstructure-based optimization
models for holistic process synthesis. First, we redefine the fundamental problems of reactor …

Designing configurations for multicomponent distillation, a ubiquitous process in chemical
and petrochemical industries, is often challenging. This is because, as the number of …

We introduce a global optimization framework for determining the minimum cost required to
distill any ideal or near-ideal multicomponent mixture into its individual constituents using a …