Distillation Distillation

D i s t i l l at i o n
Editors
Górak
Olujic
Equipment and Processes
Distillation: Equipment and Processes covers related contents written by
prominent authors from academia and industry. The first chapter gives a
concise description on types of distillation column internals and discusses
the relative advantages and disadvantages of equipment used for vapor-liquid
contacting and separation in distillation practice. More details on the
characteristic features of the main types of vapor-liquid contactors can be
found in individual chapters devoted to distillation trays, random packings,
and structured packings. Equipment-related aspects are strongly represented
in a chapter on dividing wall columns. Separation of azeotropic mixtures
is addressed in distinct chapters on extractive distillation and azeotropic
distillation. Other chapter topics include reactive distillation, and characteristic
features of vacuum and high pressure distillation. The last chapter on
laboratory distillation and scale up outlines the methodology of scale up in
distillation.
Related titles
Distillation: Fundamentals and Principles, edited by Andrzej Górak and Eva Sorensen,
2014, ISBN: 9780123865472
This book focuses on providing up-to-date coverage of the fundamental principles
of distillation with particular emphasis on the practical understanding of design and
operation of this essential industrial process. The book outlines the history of distillation
together with an overview of key aspects of vapor-liquid equilibrium and mass transfer.
This book also considers binary and batch distillation as well as the design of both
zeotropic and azeotropic processes. Energy considerations, and hybrid processes based
on distillation, are highlighted. Finally, the book outlines the current state-of-the-art
of both modeling and of optimization of distillation.
Equipment and Processes
D i s t i l l at i o n
Dr. Sc. Žarko Olujić is
an independent scientific
consultant and an unpaid
associate professor at
the Process & Energy
Laboratory of the Delft
University of Technology.
He has over 40 years of
academic research and teaching experience
in former Yugoslavia, Germany, and the
Netherlands. He received all of his academic
degrees from the University of Zagreb, Croatia
(Dipl. Ing. in Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering, 1969; MSc. in
Chemical Engineering, 1975; and Dr. Sc. in
Process Engineering, 1976). He is a Fellow of
the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AIChE).
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.
Equipment and Processes
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.
D i s t i l l at i o n
Distillation: Operation and Applications, edited by Andrzej Górak and
Hartmut Schoenmakers, 2014, ISBN: 9780123868763
The focus of this book is on operation and application technologies for distillation
columns and distillation sequences. The first part deals with control and operation principles
of columns, troubleshooting strategies, and performance testing techniques. The following
part describes application in refineries, big scale plants for bulk chemicals, plants for
specialty chemicals, and air distillation. It also presents novel techniques like HiGee,
explains new fields for distillation in biotechnology, and describes the application fields
of new separating agents like ionic liquids and hyperbranched polymers.
ISBN 978-0-12-386878-7
Edited by
Andrzej Górak and Žarko Olujic
9 780123 868787