Review of extractive distillation. Process design, operation, optimization and control

V Gerbaud, I Rodriguez-Donis, L Hegely, P Lang… - … Research and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Extractive distillation processes enable the separation of non-ideal mixtures, including
minimum or maximum boiling azeotropes and low relative volatility mixtures. Unlike …

The evolution of process design and control for ternary azeotropic separation: Recent advances in distillation and future directions

ZY Kong, HY Lee, J Sunarso - Separation and Purification Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of the azeotropes in the binary mixture has resulted in the individual
components cannot be effectively separated using the conventional distillation technique …

Sustainable design and multi-objective optimization of heat pump assisted extractive distillation process for separating a ternary mixture of methyl acetate …

J Leng, S Fan, C Lu, Z Feng, L Dong - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The separation of a ternary mixture of methyl acetate (MeAc), tetrahydrofuran (THF), and
methanol (MeOH) produced from chemical or pharmaceutical plants can not only recover …

Multi-objective optimization of the intensified extractive distillation with side-reboiler for the recovery of ethyl acetate and methanol from wastewater

A Yang, L Ernawati, M Wang, ZY Kong… - Separation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work explores the recovery of ethyl acetate (EtAC) and methanol (MeOH) from
wastewater stream using three different extractive distillation (ED) processes, ie, the triple …

Design and optimization for the separation of tetrahydrofuran/isopropanol/water using heat pump assisted heat-integrated extractive distillation

Y Xu, J Li, Q Ye, Y Li - Separation and Purification Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This study is focused on the separation for the ternary mixture of isopropanol/tetrahydrofuran
/water with extractive distillation method, including indirect extractive distillation and direct …

Design and control of vapor recompression assisted extractive distillation for separating n-hexane and ethyl acetate

Z Feng, W Shen, GP Rangaiah, L Dong - Separation and Purification …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethyl acetate and n-hexane are two widely used organic solvents in chemical and
pharmaceutical industries; however, separation of their mixtures is very challenging due to …

Improved design of heat-pump extractive distillation based on the process optimization and multi-criteria sustainability analysis

T Shi, Y Liu, H Yu, A Yang, S Sun, W Shen… - Computers & Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to achieve the sustainable separation design of azeotropic mixtures, this study
proposed a systematic framework for distillation process optimization and intensification …

Design and multiobjective optimization of a novel double extractive dividing wall column with a side reboiler scheme for the recovery of ethyl acetate and methanol …

A Yang, ZY Kong, S Sun, J Sunarso… - Industrial & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This work presents the development of two novel intensified energy-efficient extractive
distillation configurations for the separation of ethyl acetate and methanol from waste …

Energy-efficient extractive pressure-swing distillation for separating binary minimum azeotropic mixture dimethyl carbonate and ethanol

A Yang, S Sun, T Shi, D Xu, J Ren, W Shen - Separation and Purification …, 2019 - Elsevier
An energy-efficient extractive pressure-swing distillation process is proposed for separating
binary minimum azeotropic mixture ethanol and dimethyl carbonate. It can be observed that …

Multi-objective optimization strategy for green solvent design via a deep generative model learned from pre-set molecule pairs

J Zhang, Q Wang, H Wen, V Gerbaud, S Jin… - Green Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Green solvent design is usually a multi-objective optimization problem that requires
identification of a set of solvent molecules to balance multiple, often trade-off, properties. At …