Dehydration of Isopropanol: A Comparative Review of Distillation Processes, Heat Integration, and Intensification Techniques

The dehydration of isopropanol (IPA) is a crucial process in numerous industries, and the optimization its efficiency economic viability essential. This review provides comprehensive analysis comparison various distillation processes, heat integration (HI) strategies, intensification (PI) techniques employed for IPA dehydration. advantages, limitations, applicability such as extractive distillation, heterogeneous azeotropic pressure swing are discussed. In addition, this explores potential HI to optimize energy consumption reduce operating costs processes. PI techniques, including thermally coupled arrangements dividing wall columns, examined their ability improve sustainability. It conduct thorough evaluations, well analyses, when choosing appropriate process, approach, technique specific applications. emphasizes improving efficiency, product purity, cost-effectiveness through advanced processes techniques.