Recent advances and future perspectives on more sustainable and energy efficient distillation processes

Distillation has held a very strong position in the chemical process industries for well over century, and has, as separation method, been around millennia. The can be designed directly without need experimentation unlike other novel processes, distillation is standard part of any undergraduate curriculum. So why ongoing interest this dinosaur? Because distillation’s significant importance industry, its associated high energy requirements thereby contribution to global warming, considerable effort still needed make more efficient, consider heating sources beyond traditional fossil fuels. In work, we will outline most methods currently considered efficiency distillation, provide an overview where may heading discipline our quest sustainable engineering future. We argue that improvements have already made, but required by both industry legislators. future use fuel-based feedstock or switch towards renewable sources, graduates adequately prepared such • remains important method intensive there better Intensified processes incl. reactive, hybrid dividing wall columns, are Electrification can, with incentives, alternative source fuel Advanced must degree programmes