Abstract Divided‐wall column (DWC) is an intensified separation process and so far developing a simple procedure for designing these units has been challenging. In this work, the concept of molecular tracking integrated with conventional methods to build easy‐to‐use methodology DWCs multicomponent separations. Application proposed approach highlighted through several three‐ four‐component mixtu...

Batch industries, specially the fine chemical industry, need rapid and robust mathematical models that can easily predict the degree of separation of mixtures like volatile organic compounds. Otherwise, in the study of on line production scheduling and planning of fine chemical plants, there is a lack of quick but reliable and more accurate than black box models in batch distillation. In this w...

The analysis of the history of structured packings allows the conclusion that the innovation cycle will become faster. Based on the separation power as an alternative way to represent the performance characteristics an estimate of the next level of what might be the ultimative separation power is given. Regarding the column internals like distributors only slight improvements are expected, typi...

A systematic computer aided analysis of the process model is used as a pre-solution step for integration of design and control problem. In this paper, a static energy integrated distillation plant model is first presented, then the analysis is presented for a single distillation column, subsequently the column analysis is extended with the analysis for the heat pump. The analysis relates to the...

Distillation is not only the most energy consumer but also the most frequently-adopted separation operation in chemical industries since it separates a mixture only by the difference among vapor pressures (boiling points) of components. So distillation is often called as the king of separation processes. Therefore, research and development of technologies on energy savings of distillation is an...