Distillation remains the leading and most frequently adopted technique for the separation
and purification of condensable mixtures in numerous industries. However, the inherently …

Sustainable energy systems are crucial for reducing carbon emissions because renewable
energy sources leave a footprint. The petrochemical industry often suffers from inefficient …

Energy integration of the existing chemical and petrochemical facilities is regarded as a
keystone for sustainable energy systems. It is widely known that a considerable number of …

Despite the low energy efficiency of distillation, it remains the popular separation technology
for methanol purification. Enlightened by progress in heat pump (HP) concepts, which have …

This paper presents a tradeoff grassroots design of cost-effective and low-CO 2 emissions
heat exchanger networks for crude oil distillation units (CDUs) to address high energy …

The separation of close-boiling and azeotropic components by extractive distillation (ED) is
a costly process. Because ED columns usually have relatively large top/bottom temperature …

This work discusses a crucial activity for Heat Integration (HI): Data Extraction (DE). Overall,
data acquisition is a complex process involving many stages and stakeholders. The paper …

The production of p-xylene has received more and more attention, since it is widely used in
chemical synthetic resin, pharmaceutical, chemical fiber, and pesticide industries. The p …

Heat exchanger network (HEN) retrofit plays a major role in solving environmental issues
and improving plants' performance. Development of HEN retrofit graphical tools has recently …

The current state-of-the-art commercial styrene distillation schemes, featured by
conventional distillation columns to purify styrene, are introduced with energy, exergy and …