Distillation
Fundamentals and Principles

Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics, this book addresses important current research on industrial distillation, including all steps in process design, operation and control aspects, and conceptual design.

Andrzej Gorak (Edited by), Eva Sorensen (Edited by)

9780123865472, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 30 July 2014

450 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 1.11 kg

"These books, when taken together, are probably the best on the market on the subject of distillation...would add value to any engineer’s library, whether they be a practising engineer, an academic or indeed a student. 4.5 Stars" --The Chemical Engineer

Distillation: Fundamentals and Principles — winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics — is a single source of authoritative information on all aspects of the theory and practice of modern distillation, suitable for advanced students and professionals working in a laboratory, industrial plants, or a managerial capacity. It addresses the most important and current research on industrial distillation, including all steps in process design (feasibility study, modeling, and experimental validation), together with operation and control aspects. This volume features an extra focus on the conceptual design of distillation.

1. History of Distillation 2. Vapour-Liquid Equilibrium and Physical Properties for Distillation 3. Mass Transfer in Distillation 4. Principles of Binary Distillation 5. Design and Operation of Batch Distillation 6. Energy Considerations in Distillation 7. Conceptual Design of Zeotropic Distillation Processes 8. Conceptual Design of Azeotropic Distillation Processes 9. Conceptual Design of Hybrid Distillation Processes 10. Modelling of Distillation Processes 11. Optimisation of Distillation Processes

Subject Areas: Chemical engineering [TDCB], Industrial chemistry [TDC], Analytical chemistry [PNF]