A review of energy intensification strategies for distillation processes: Cyclic operation, stacking, heat pumps, side-streams, dividing walls and beyond

WT Tang, CK Chien, JD Ward - Separation and Purification Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Distillation is by far the most important and most widely-used method of separation and
purification in the petroleum, chemicals and related industries, and it also consumes by far …

Electrification of distillation for decarbonization: An overview and perspective

C Cui, M Qi, X Zhang, J Sun, Q Li, AA Kiss… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Distillation remains the leading and most frequently adopted technique for the separation
and purification of condensable mixtures in numerous industries. However, the inherently …

Data-driven surrogate optimized and intensified extractive distillation process for clean separation of isopropanol from water: a sustainable alternative

X Liu, J Wu, Y Lei, X Wu, Y Man, H Luo… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Isopropanol (IPA) is an important chemical because of its wide use in chemical and related
process industries. In the production of IPA, an important processing step is its recovery and …

Economic and environmental assessment of heat pump integration in thermally coupled hybrid separation

B Šulgan, P Furda, Z Labovská - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Process intensification of thermally coupled hybrid separation is presented in this paper.
Production of ethyl acetate via reactive distillation with a stripper column (RDS) is employed …

Effective Adsorption of Cyclohexene and Analytically Perfect Separation of Cyclohexene/Cyclohexanol Azeotropes by Nonporous Adaptive Crystals of a Hybrid [3] …

M Yan, J Hou, J Zhou - Chemistry of Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cyclohexene is an important volatile organic compound (VOC), which is the key raw
material for the preparation of cyclohexanol. Because of the formation of azeotropes …

A new biphasic system of TEPA/DGME/Water for capturing CO2

B Wang, X Chen, G Yu - Separation and Purification Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
A new class of biphasic system composed of tetraethylene pentaamine (TEPA), organic
solvents and water is developed for capturing CO 2, among which TEPA …

Pilot-scale validation and novel design of reactive distillation with HY@ SiC foam catalytic packing for cyclohexyl acetate production

Z Hou, Q Ding, X Geng, H Li, C Shu, X Gao - Separation and Purification …, 2023 - Elsevier
For reactive distillation (RD) process limited by the separation efficiency of gas–liquid mass
transfer, if the physical size of the alternating operation in reaction and separation can be …

Optimal design and multicriteria comparison of extractive distillation processes for separating of a quaternary low-boiling solvent mixture

Z Zhang, J Peng, Y Cheng, M Zhang, M Li… - Separation and Purification …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article mainly explores the eco-efficient separation of a complex quaternary azeotropic
mixture of methanol, n-hexane, ethyl acetate and ethanol from a pharmaceutical enterprise …

Catalytic enhancement of cyclohexene hydration by Ga-doped ZSM-5 zeolites

Y Jin, L Zong, X Wang, H Wei - ACS omega, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ga-doped ZSM-5 zeolites were directly synthesized by a facile one-step hydrothermal
method without organic templates and calcination and then investigated in the cyclohexene …

A green synthesis route of cyclohexanol via transesterification reaction intensified by reactive distillation technology

Z Hou, X Geng, Q Ding, H Li, Y Guo, T Qiu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand of cyclohexanol in nylon industry, it is significant to develop a
safe, green and economical process to produce cyclohexanol. For this purpose, a novel …