The presence of the azeotropes in the binary mixture has resulted in the individual
components cannot be effectively separated using the conventional distillation technique …

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 …

In this paper, the energy-saving potential of an extractive dividing-wall column (EDWC) is
investigated. One potential drawback on the EDWC design is that two reboilers in the …

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 optimal design of dividing wall columns is a non‐linear and multivariable problem, and
the objective function used as optimization criterion is generally non‐convex with several …

Agricultural residues are considered abundant raw materials that can be used to produce
valuable chemicals like furfural. Currently, furfural production is characterized by extensive …

In this paper, design and optimization procedures are developed for a conventional
extractive distillation sequence and a thermally coupled extractive distillation scheme. The …

In this paper, the energy-saving potential of a heterogeneous azeotropic dividing-wall
column is investigated by demonstrating an example for the separation of pyridine and water …

This paper introduces a novel MILP approach for the design of distillation columns
sequences of zeotropic mixtures that explicitly include from conventional to fully thermally …

Acetone purification is one of the most critical stages of its production process, because a
large amount of energy is required. Due to this high energy consumption, the process turns …