Process intensification offers the potential to drastically reduce the energy consumption and
cost of producing chemicals from both bulk and distributed feedstocks. This review article …

Bio-ethanol, as a clean and renewable fuel, is gaining increasing attention, mostly through
its major environmental benefits. It can be produced from different kinds of renewable …

Extractive distillation processes enable the separation of non-ideal mixtures, including
minimum or maximum boiling azeotropes and low relative volatility mixtures. Unlike …

The major intrinsic obstacle of extractive distillation is the high energy consumption. It is an
actual problem for reducing energy consumption of extractive distillation processes. Two …

The presence of the azeotropes in the binary mixture has resulted in the individual
components cannot be effectively separated using the conventional distillation technique …

Reactive distillation (RD) is an efficient process intensification technique that integrates
chemical reaction and distillation in a single apparatus. The process is also known as …

Throughout history, distillation has been the most widespread separation method. However,
despite its simplicity and flexibility, distillation still remains very energy inefficient. Novel …

Three factors,(i) the ethanol “blend wall”, which limits its market as a transportation fuel,(ii)
advances in production efficiency, and (iii) feedstock diversification, could lead to excess …

In spite of claiming around half of the operational costs of chemical plants, distillation is still
the most popular separation technology. Distillation has low thermodynamic efficiency …

The purification of bioethanol fuel involves an energy-intensive separation process to
concentrate the diluted streams obtained in the fermentation stage and to overcome the …