Distillation ─ Fundamentals and Principles

The first in a set of three books on all aspects of distillation, this volume introduces its fundamental principles, with an emphasis on the design and operation of the distillation process. In 11 chapters, engineers from the US and Europe detail the history of distillation; thermodynamic models for the prediction of vapor-liquid equilibrium behavior and conditions for the occurrence of azeotropes; the underlying principle of mass transfer; aspects of binary and batch distillation, including simple calculation and analysis methods, operating modes, alternative column configurations, and more complex batch distillation processes; energy-efficient distillation design and operation and advanced and complex distillation column configurations; the design of zeotropic and azeotropic distillation processes; the design, analysis, and application of hybrid distillation schemes; modeling methods for classical distillation and more complex processes; and the major advances in optimization of zeotropic systems. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)