[HTML][HTML] Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Chemical and Process Engineering: Methods, Progress, and Potential

Z Wang, SR Nabavi, GP Rangaiah - Processes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is necessary for choosing one from the available
alternatives (or from the Pareto-optimal solutions obtained by multi-objective optimization) …

Energy-efficient heterogeneous triple-column azeotropic distillation process for recovery of ethyl acetate and methanol from wastewater

A Yang, S Sun, ZY Kong, S Zhu, J Sunarso… - Computers & Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The challenging separation of ethyl acetate (EtAC) and methanol (MeOH) from wastewater
involves two azeotropes and a distillation boundary. Although extractive distillation (ED) has …

Advancing Rare-Earth (4f) and Actinide (5f) Separation through Machine Learning and Automated High-Throughput Experiments

LJ Augustine, Y Wang, SL Adelman… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Identifying improved and sustainable alternatives to “classic” separation techniques is an
active research field due to its potential widespread impact in fundamental and applied …

Novel Heterogeneous Extraction Methods for Adiponitrile Electrolyte Recycling

Z **, H Liu, Z Dai, Y Dai - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electrohydrodimerization of acrylonitrile (AN) to adiponitrile (ADN) is considered to be one of
the largest and most successful electrochemical processes. The reutilization of electrolytes …

Heat Pump-Assisted Extractive Pressure-Swing Distillation with Integrated Feed Preconcentration/Solvent Recovery for Isopropanol-Benzene-Water Separation

J Zhu, B Zhang, H Zhang, L Hao - Separation and Purification Technology, 2025 - Elsevier
Recently, heat-integrated pressure-swing distillation (HIPSD) has been explored for
recovering isopropanol and benzene from wastewater, but the process remains highly …

Pressure-swing heterogeneous azeotropic distillation for energy-efficient recovery of ethyl acetate and methanol from wastewater with expanded feed composition …

J Zhu, A Yang, H Zhang, W Shen - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
This article tends to address the limitations of heterogeneous azeotropic distillation (HAD)
for separating Serafimov's class 2.0–2b mixtures, such as ethyl acetate/methanol/water. The …

Control of extractive distillation processes with preconcentration for the separation of ternary azeotropic mixture ethyl acetate-ethanol–water in the face of multiple feed …

T Wu, C Wang, Y Zhuang, H Xu, J Du - Separation and Purification …, 2025 - Elsevier
The integration of preconcentration and solvent recovery functions is one of the effective
ways to save energy consumption of extractive distillation processes for separating ternary …

A Deep Learning Hybrid Framework Combining an Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm for Complex Many-Objective Optimization of Sustainable Triple CO2 Feed …

H Cao, Y Li, C Chang, X Zhang, A Yang… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Current mainstream technologies have exhibited limits in integrating global many-objective
optimization methods with chemical production systems, resulting in subpar outcomes in …

Deep learning-driven green solvent design and process intensification towards isopropyl alcohol-water azeotrope system

Q Wang, P Dai, A Yang, W Shen, J Zhang - Separation and Purification …, 2025 - Elsevier
Extraction distillation and azeotropic distillation are two important methods for separating
isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and water azeotrope. However, azeotropic distillation is generally …

Economic, environmental, energy, exergy (4E) analysis and simulated annealing algorithm optimization of dividing-wall column-intensified heterogeneous azeotropic …

A Yu, Q Ye, J Li, X Li, Y Wang, Q Rui - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
This work presents an approach for the recovery of high purity cyclohexane (CYCLO) and
tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) from wastewater. After thermodynamic analysis, a heterogeneous …