Reactive distillation is a process intensification technique that merges reaction and separation in one unit, reducing equipment count and energy use. It boosts conversion by continuously removing ...

In industial distillation processes, flooding is an abnormal, but relatively common, process condition in which liquid accumulates in the column. The accumulation may be caused by excessive upward ...

Myke King addresses some remaining challenges in the control of distillation columns, starting by showing how important ‘cut’ and ‘fractionation’ are to meeting composition targets In this example we ...

Abstract: The methanol three-column distillation process is often affected by noise and random interference, which causes the normal data to be misreported as fault data when monitoring the ...

Given these complexities, a truly representative simulation would require extensive data and specialized knowledge in chemical engineering and petroleum refining. However, I created a simplified ...

Extractive distillation is an alternative for ethanol dehydration processes that has been shown to be more effective than azeotropic distillation and, in close proximity, to be very competitive ...