Distillation
Design, Optimization and Control of Distillation Processes
- 2nd Edition - July 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Eva Sorensen, Mirko Skiborowski
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 4 9 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 4 9 7 - 5
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Distillation: Design, Optimization, and Control of Distillation Processes, second edition builds on the success of its PROSE award-winning predecessor and offers a comprehensive exploration of the latest advancements in industrial distillation. With contributions from recognized experts, this collection integrates essential information on understanding, analyzing, and performing distillation, while emphasizing the importance of energy efficiency and sustainability. The updated structure remixes key chapters from the original series, ensuring a cohesive presentation of both foundational principles and cutting-edge practices. Delve into detailed discussions on critical topics such as modeling and optimizing distillation columns, conceptual designs for various distillation processes—including batch, zeotropic, azeotropic, and reactive distillation—and the selection of separating agents. Each chapter is meticulously crafted to provide practical insights and the most current research, covering all steps in process design from feasibility studies to experimental validation, alongside operation and control aspects. Distillation: Design, Optimization, and Control of Distillation Processes, second edition is tailored for engineers, researchers, and students in chemical engineering, process design, and industrial applications. Whether you are involved in academia or industry, this book equips you with the knowledge to enhance your understanding and application of distillation processes, paving the way for innovative solutions in energy efficiency and sustainability.
• Fully revised and updated new edition of 2015 PROSE Award Winner in Chemistry & Physics from the Association of American Publishers
• Addresses the need for improved energy efficiency, and conceptual methods / computational tools applied to design, optimization and control of distillation processes
• Features templated case studies and methods
• Provides practical information on the newest development written by recognized experts
• Comprises most important and current research on industrial distillation, including all steps in process design (feasibility study, modelling, and experimental validation), together with operation and control aspects
• Covers all distillation processes from batch, to zeotropic and azeotropic distillation, as well as reactive distillation and special distillation processes
• Addresses the need for improved energy efficiency, and conceptual methods / computational tools applied to design, optimization and control of distillation processes
• Features templated case studies and methods
• Provides practical information on the newest development written by recognized experts
• Comprises most important and current research on industrial distillation, including all steps in process design (feasibility study, modelling, and experimental validation), together with operation and control aspects
• Covers all distillation processes from batch, to zeotropic and azeotropic distillation, as well as reactive distillation and special distillation processes
Graduate students and practitioners in Chemical Engineering, working in a laboratory, industrial plants, or a managerial capacity
1. Modeling of distillation columns
2. Optimization of distillation columns and sequences
3. Conceptual design of batch distillation
4. Conceptual design of zeotropic distillation sequences
5. Conceptual design of dividing wall columns
6. Conceptual design of azeotropic distillation processes
7. Conceptual design of extractive distillation processes
8. Conceptual design of hybrid distillation processes
9. Conceptual design of reactive distillation processes
10. Selecting separating agents for separation processes
11. Control of distillation processes
2. Optimization of distillation columns and sequences
3. Conceptual design of batch distillation
4. Conceptual design of zeotropic distillation sequences
5. Conceptual design of dividing wall columns
6. Conceptual design of azeotropic distillation processes
7. Conceptual design of extractive distillation processes
8. Conceptual design of hybrid distillation processes
9. Conceptual design of reactive distillation processes
10. Selecting separating agents for separation processes
11. Control of distillation processes
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: July 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Eva Sorensen
Eva Sørensen is currently Professor in Chemical Engineering and Head of Department. Prior to joining UCL, she spent one year at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher. Eva Sørensen is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) Working Party on Fluid Separations (Chair 2007-2013) and she was previously a member of the EFCE's Executive Board (2011-2017). Her research focuses on fluid separations in chemical engineering, emphasizing the use of advanced modelling and optimization techniques to achieve optimal design and operation, particularly in fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Her work aims to enhance productivity and reduce environmental impact by exploring all design possibilities, with experimental verification conducted at UCL or through collaborations with industry and other researchers.
Affiliations and expertise
University College London, UKMS
Mirko Skiborowski
Mirko Skiborowski holds a Dipl-Ing. in Computational Engineering Science (2009) and a Dr.-Ing. (PhD) in Process Systems Engineering (2015), both received from RWTH Aachen University. He received the EFCE Excellence Award on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) in 2018 and was leading a research group on Process Synthesis and Intensification at the Laboratory of Fluid Separations of Andrzej Górak at TU Dortmund University until 2019. Since 2020 he is heading the Institute of Process Systems Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology. His research focuses on the interface of Process Systems Engineering and Process Intensification, with specific emphasis on distillation, hybrid and reactive separation processes, as well as innovative contacting equipment for the development of energy-efficient, economic, and sustainable processes.
Affiliations and expertise
Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany