Distillation: Fundamentals and Principles (Handbooks in Separation Science) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123865476 ISBN 13: 9780123865472

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

• Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics from the Association of American Publishers
• Practical information on the newest development written by recognized experts
• Coverage of a huge range of laboratory and industrial distillation approaches
• Extensive references for each chapter facilitates further study

About this title

About the Authors

Professor Andrzej Górak is Chair of Fluid Separations at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany and Professor at the Technical University of Łódz, Poland. He received his PhD from the Institute of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Łódz where he continued his work as a senior researcher. He then assumed the same position at Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf. In 1992, Prof. Górak completed his postdoctoral “Habilitation” at RWTH Aachen and was appointed Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund. Between 1996 and 2000, he was Chair of Fluid Separations at Essen University, before returning to and taking over the Chair at the TU Dortmund.

Eva Sørensen is currently Professor in Chemical Engineering and Head of Department. Prior to joining UCL, she spent one year at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher. Eva Sørensen is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) Working Party on Fluid Separations (Chair 2007-2013) and she was previously a member of the EFCE's Executive Board (2011-2017). Her research focuses on fluid separations in chemical engineering, emphasizing the use of advanced modelling and optimization techniques to achieve optimal design and operation, particularly in fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Her work aims to enhance productivity and reduce environmental impact by exploring all design possibilities, with experimental verification conducted at UCL or through collaborations with industry and other researchers.

From the Back Cover

This is one of three books in a collection covering all aspects of distillation. Distillation is the oldest technology available for the separation and purification of liquid mixtures and is a key unit operation within the petroleum refining, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, and alcohol industries.

Distillation: Fundamentals and Principles provides up-to-date coverage of the fundamental principles of distillation with particular emphasis on practical understanding of design and operation of this essential industrial process. This book outlines the history of distillation and the underlying principles of vapor-liquid equilibrium and mass transfer on which the process is based. The key aspects of binary and batch distillation are explained, as well as recent developments within the design of both zeotropic and azeotropic processes. Fundamentals and Principles highlights key issues of importance with respect to energy consumption and potential energy reduction; and demonstrates how hybrid processes, in which distillation is combined with another fundamental separation methodology, can provide further improvements and/or cost savings. Overviews of current state-of-the-art within modeling and within optimization of distillation processes for a range of operating scales and process complexities conclude the book. Fundamentals and Principles offers both students and engineers a complete overview of the methods and techniques available for both process understanding and for computation and design of any distillation problem.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0123865476
• ISBN 13: 9780123865472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Gorak Andrzej, Sorensen Full Professor Of Chemical Engineering Eva