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 …

Sustainable process for the separation of ternary azeotropic mixture tetrahydrofuran/ethanol/
methanol should be developed to recycle value-added organic components and protect …

The focus of the chemical industry on environmental protection and energy conservation has
driven the development of green distillation technology. Xylene isomers are extensively …

This study reported a conceptual design of dimethyl carbonate/methanol (DMC/MET)
separation via an azeotropic distillation (AD) process with water as the entrainer. Water can …

Coal to ethylene glycol still lacks algorithm optimization achievements for distillation
sequencing due to high-dimension and strong nonconvexity characteristics, although there …

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 …

The optimal synthesis of distillation sequences has been a popular research topic in the field
of chemical process system engineering for many years. In most works, the optimization …

In this article, we present an alternative approach to the use of metaheuristic methods (GA,
PSO, SA, etc.) or mathematical programming (MINLP solvers) for the optimal design of one …

Process integration is a well-established approach within process intensification (PI)
strategies, aimed at increasing process efficiency to support more sustainable designs, for …

In the realm of the synthesis of heat-integrated distillation configurations, the conventional
approach for exploring more heat integration possibilities typically entails the splitting of a …