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

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.

About the Author:

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.

Dr. Eva Sųrensen is a Reader in Chemical Engineering at University College London. She has worked within the area of fluid separations for over 20 years, and has extensive experience in academic research and in teaching. Dr. Sųrensen is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0123865476
• ISBN 13: 9780123865472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Gorak Andrzej, Sorensen Eva