Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns: Sustainable and Bio-applications offers a comprehensive examination of thermal couplings' role in enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes. The book provides a detailed theoretical overview, covering foundations, energy problems in distillation, and practical implementations, providing insights into optimizing distillation columns. It also explores the motivation, physical implications, and operational benefits of thermal couplings alongside diverse case studies that demonstrate their efficacy across industries. Additionally, the book discusses innovations such as artificial intelligence applications and Industry 4.0 strategies for process optimization.
It concludes with an exploration of challenges, opportunities, and future directions in improving complex divided wall column arrangements. This book will serve as an excellent resource for professionals in chemical engineering, environmental science, and sustainability, offering actionable strategies to drive efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes, contributing to broader sustainability objectives in the industrial sector.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Chapter 1. Energy as a tipping point in sustainable processes - p. 1 9. Chapter 2. Energy problems in distillation process - p. 21 10. Chapter 3. Thermal couplings: Motivation, physical implications in distillation columns - p. 39 11. Chapter 4. Synthesis, design, and optimization strategies in the application of thermal couplings - p. 63 12. Chapter 5. Applications in (bio) thermal coupling processes within a sustainability framework - p. 87 13. Chapter 6. Complete thermal coupling: Petlyuk columns and their implementation as divided wall columns - p. 141 14. Chapter 7. Methodologies for the synthesis and design of DWC type schemes - p. 175 15. Chapter 8. Complex divided wall column arrangements - p. 201 16. Chapter 9. Innovations, AI applications and other environmentally sustainable applications - p. 249 17. Chapter 10. Challenges, opportunities in the improvement of complex DWC schemes - p. 263 18. Index - p. 277
Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns: Sustainable and Bio-applications offers a comprehensive examination of thermal couplings' role in enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes. The book provides a detailed theoretical overview, covering foundations, energy problems in distillation, and practical implementations, providing insights into optimizing distillation columns. It also explores the motivation, physical implications, and operational benefits of thermal couplings alongside diverse case studies that demonstrate their efficacy across industries. Additionally, the book discusses innovations such as artificial intelligence applications and Industry 4.0 strategies for process optimization.
It concludes with an exploration of challenges, opportunities, and future directions in improving complex divided wall column arrangements. This book will serve as an excellent resource for professionals in chemical engineering, environmental science, and sustainability, offering actionable strategies to drive efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes, contributing to broader sustainability objectives in the industrial sector.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Chapter 1. Energy as a tipping point in sustainable processes - p. 1 9. Chapter 2. Energy problems in distillation process - p. 21 10. Chapter 3. Thermal couplings: Motivation, physical implications in distillation columns - p. 39 11. Chapter 4. Synthesis, design, and optimization strategies in the application of thermal couplings - p. 63 12. Chapter 5. Applications in (bio) thermal coupling processes within a sustainability framework - p. 87 13. Chapter 6. Complete thermal coupling: Petlyuk columns and their implementation as divided wall columns - p. 141 14. Chapter 7. Methodologies for the synthesis and design of DWC type schemes - p. 175 15. Chapter 8. Complex divided wall column arrangements - p. 201 16. Chapter 9. Innovations, AI applications and other environmentally sustainable applications - p. 249 17. Chapter 10. Challenges, opportunities in the improvement of complex DWC schemes - p. 263 18. Index - p. 277
