Extractive distillation: Advances in conceptual design, solvent selection, and separation strategies

S Sun, L Lü, A Yang, W Shen - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Extractive distillation (ED) is one of the most promising approaches for the separation of the
azeotropic or close-boiling mixtures in the chemical industry. The purpose of this paper is to …

Design and control of pressure‐swing distillation for separating ternary systems with three binary minimum azeotropes

A Yang, W Shen, S Wei, L Dong, J Li… - AIChE Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The separation of ternary nonideal systems with multi‐azeotrope is very important because
they are often found in the waste of chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which is much …

Optimal design and effective control of triple-column extractive distillation for separating ethyl acetate/ethanol/water with multiazeotrope

A Yang, H Zou, IL Chien, D Wang, S Wei… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The separation of the ternary nonideal system ethyl acetate (EtAC)/ethanol (EtOH)/water
with multiazeotropes is very important since they are always generated in the production …

Optimization and control of energy saving side-stream extractive distillation with heat integration for separating ethyl acetate-ethanol azeotrope

T Shi, W Chun, A Yang, Y Su, S Jin, J Ren… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Currently, limited efforts have focused on the multi-objective optimization and effective
control of the side-stream extractive distillation processes (EDS). Herein, the EDS and a heat …

Investigation of an energy-saving double-thermally coupled extractive distillation for separating ternary system benzene/toluene/cyclohexane

A Yang, Y Su, IL Chien, S Jin, C Yan, W Shen - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
An intensified scheme for the separation of ternary azeotropic system is explored to reduce
the energy consumption and recycle important organic solvents. Herein, a novel double …

Multi-objective optimization of organic Rankine cycle system for the waste heat recovery in the heat pump assisted reactive dividing wall column

A Yang, Y Su, W Shen, IL Chien, J Ren - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The application of heat pump (HP) technique to reactive dividing wall column (RDWC)
achieving energy-saving has received more and more attention, however, massive low …

Intensified hybrid reactive-extractive distillation process for the separation of water-containing ternary mixtures

YR Zhang, TW Wu, IL Chien - Separation and Purification Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Separation of ternary mixture is a challenging task if multiple azeotropes exist among the
components, and special distillation techniques should be adopted. For water-containing …

Energy-saving investigation for diethyl carbonate synthesis through the reactive dividing wall column combining the vapor recompression heat pump or different …

A Yang, S Sun, A Eslamimanesh, W Shen - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The design of the diethyl carbonate (DEC) production process has received much attention
due to its key role as the oxygenated gasoline additive with much fewer environmental and …

Investigation of energy-saving azeotropic dividing wall column to achieve cleaner production via heat exchanger network and heat pump technique

A Yang, S Jin, W Shen, P Cui, IL Chien… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
A thermally coupled azeotropic dividing wall column (ADWC) configuration is explored for
the separation of industrial wastewater to recycle the organic solvent tert-butanol. Heat …

Sustainable concept design including economic, environment and inherent safety criteria: Process intensification-reactive pressure swing distillation

J Zhu, L Hao, H Wei - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a systematic framework for concept design of sustainable chemical process is
used to investigate process intensification-the reactive pressure swing process considering …