Process intensification from conventional to advanced distillations: Past, present, and future

ZY Kong, E Sánchez-Ramírez, A Yang, W Shen… - … Research and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
This perspective paper features the process intensification (PI) application for advanced
distillation-based processes. Starting with the historical background of generic PI, we …

Advances in distillation: Significant reductions in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions for crude oil separation

TJ Mathew, S Narayanan, A Jalan, L Matthews… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Crude distillation, with a long history of research and commercial improvements, is
perceived to be a mature separation technology with minimal scope of improvement. By …

Are process-intensified extractive distillation always energetically more efficient?

ZY Kong, JG Segovia-Hernández, HY Lee… - … and Processing-Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
The thermally coupled, dividing wall column, and side-stream configurations are some of the
energy-intensified techniques widely applied to the extractive distillation for improving the …

Design and optimization of distillation column sequencing for NGL fractionation processes

A Tamuzi, N Kasiri, A Khalili-Garakani - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
NGL fractionation is one of the most energy-intensive facilities in hydrocarbon processing
plants playing an important role in the petrochemical supply chain. Innovative schemes for …

Design and optimization of distillation column sequencing for the GTL process

EHAZ Louhi, N Kasiri, A Khalili-Garakani… - … Research and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Gas to liquid (GTL) is one of the main processes that liquefied natural gas through chemical
conversion into synthetic crude that can be upgraded and separated into different useful …

A new search space reduction method based on exergy analysis for distillation columns synthesis

A Khalili-Garakani, J Ivakpour, N Kasiri - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
In distillation process synthesis as the number of components increased the number of
sequences exponentially increased. Besides, there are different categories of sequences …

110th Anniversary: Thermal Coupling via Heat Transfer: A Potential Route to Simple Distillation Configurations with Lower Heat Duty

TJ Mathew, R Tumbalam Gooty… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Numerous configurations are available for the separation of a multicomponent mixture by
distillation; each of which has different energy requirements. We classify heat integration (a …

[HTML][HTML] Three-component distillation columns sequencing: including configurations with divided-wall columns

A Khalili-Garakani, J Ivakpour, N Kasiri - … of Oil and Gas Science and …, 2016 - ijogst.put.ac.ir
In the present work, the exergy analysis and economic study of 3 different samples of
threecomponent mixtures have been investigated (ESI> 1, ESI≈ 1, and ESI< 1). The feed …

Development of the Reaction/Distillation matrix to include more complicated Reaction/Distillation systems and performance evaluation using an ethylene hydration …

M Nezhadfard, A Khalili-Garakani, N Kasiri - … Engineering Research and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Reaction/Separation systems are very important in chemical industries and synthesis of all
possible configurations for these systems is necessary for finding the best process …

New insight into contradictory distillation sequence heuristics: exergoeconomic and environmental analysis

M Malayeri, A Kazemi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - inderscienceonline.com
This research focuses on possible sequences for the distillation of quaternary mixture to
assess the performance of a system, where the general design heuristics are contradictory …