Advances in heat pump assisted distillation column: A review

AK Jana - Energy Conversion and Management, 2014 - Elsevier
Progressive depletion of conventional fossil fuels with increasing energy demand and
federal laws on environmental emissions have stimulated intensive research in improving …

A review on process intensification in internally heat-integrated distillation columns

AA Kiss, Ž Olujić - Chemical engineering and processing: process …, 2014 - Elsevier
Internally heat-integrated distillation column (HIDiC) is the most radical approach of a heat
pump design, making efficient use of internal heat-integration: the rectifying section of a …

Towards energy efficient distillation technologies–Making the right choice

AA Kiss, SJF Landaeta, CAI Ferreira - Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Optimizing algal biodiesel production from a novel reactive distillation based unit: Reducing CO2 emission and cost

B Mondal, GP Rangaiah, AK Jana - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
The algal biodiesel as a potential alternative to conventional petroleum fuel and first-
generation biofuel has been explored extensively but the efficacy of its production in a …

Process synthesis and optimization of propylene/propane separation using vapor recompression and self-heat recuperation

CCE Christopher, A Dutta, S Farooq… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Propylene/propane separation is one of the most energy-intensive processes in the
chemical industry. In this study, the concepts of mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) and …

Exergy, economic and environmental analysis of an integrated pressure-swing reactive distillation process for the isobutyl acetate production via methyl acetate …

X Geng, H Zhou, P Yan, H Li, X Li, X Gao - Process safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a greener bio-based solvent, isobutyl acetate (ISBAC) was widely applied in biorefineries
around value-added production for environmental protection and ecological safety. The …

Nano-catalytic heterogeneous reactive distillation for algal biodiesel production: Multi-objective optimization and heat integration

B Mondal, SS Parhi, GP Rangaiah, AK Jana - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work proposes a novel reactive distillation (RD) column for the production of algal
biodiesel by the use of a heterogeneous nano-catalyst, Ca (OCH 3) 2. The elitist non …

Heat pump assisted divided wall column for ethanol azeotropic purification

Y Ghalavand, H Nikkhah, A Nikkhah - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of …, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the most critical challenges in the distillation process to reach a pure component is
the azeotropic point. Usually, extractive distillation is used to purify the compounds around …

Clean treatment of rejected brine by zero liquid discharge thermal desalination in Persian Gulf countries

A Ghalavand, MS Hatamipour, Y Ghalavand - Clean Technologies and …, 2021 - Springer
In this study, four zero liquid discharge thermal desalination processes were
technoeconomically investigated to select the most efficient and economic process for the …

Energy efficiency improvement of a bioethanol distillery, by replacing a rectifying column with a pervaporation unit

A Tgarguifa, S Abderafi, T Bounahmidi - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Separation methods for ethanol production are among the most energy consumption in
chemical industry. The design of efficient process is part of challenges faced by process …