Process intensification offers the potential to drastically reduce the energy consumption and
cost of producing chemicals from both bulk and distributed feedstocks. This review article …

Process intensification (PI) is a rapidly growing field of research and industrial development
that has already created many innovations in chemical process industry. PI is directed …

The urgent global demand for carbon neutrality is met with increasing energy consumption
due to economic development, necessitating the adoption of a sustainable energy mix. More …

Extractive distillation (ED) can be combined with divided wall column (DWC) schemes to
separate azeotropic mixtures within one column shell. Traditional extractive divided wall …

Azeotropic separation by pressure-swing distillation (PSD) is one of the most costly
processes in the chemical industry. To minimize process cost and CO 2 emission, process …

Trichlorosilane (TCS) is a crucial intermediate product in the polysilicon manufacturing
process, and its purification consumes a significant amount of energy. The design and …

Furfural, which is used as a precursor for the production of many other industrial chemicals,
has been identified as one of the major bio-based platform chemicals that can compete with …

Glycerol is an essential chemical raw material widely used in industries such as food,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, tobacco, and textiles. With the increasing production of …

Until now, there has not been consensus about the superiority of thermally coupled
sequence over the conventional sequence in the extractive distillation process. In this sense …

This paper presents a novel hybrid process combining thermally coupled reactive distillation
with membrane-based pervaporation for enhanced production of n-butyl acetate. A …