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

Detailed energy and exergy analyses are conducted for a stacked complex sequence (SCS)
and alternatives for a ternary zeotropic distillation problem. Multi-objective optimizations are …

The implementations of heat integration (HI, thermal-driven), vapor recompression (VRC,
electrical-driven), and self-heat recuperation (SHR, electrical-driven) in pressure-swing …

Engineers seeking to improve performance and reduce the cost and environmental impact
of distillation processes by energy intensification face a plethora of choices, including cyclic …

The integrated distillation configurations have an enormous number of alternative
flowsheets leading to great challenges for process synthesis. The superstructure-based …

Distillation configurations are optimized and compared for two industrially relevant C6–C7
aliphatic hydrocarbon mixtures: methylcyclopentane/cyclohexane/methylcyclohexane …

Caprolactam is in high demand in the new materials industry as a monomer for nylon and
polyamides. Although the schemes of traditional processes such as hydroxylamine …

Despite distillation's popularity in the industry, it is highly energy-intensive. Heat integration
is, therefore essential considering the recent energy crisis. This paper presents thermal …

Data on the optimized design of a large number of distillation processes with and without
vapor recompression heat pumps (VRHPs) is collected. Feature importance analysis shows …