Extractive distillation is an alternative for ethanol dehydration processes that has been shown to be more effective than azeotropic distillation and, in close proximity, to be very competitive against the process that uses adsorption with molecular sieves. Glycols have been shown to be the most effective solvents in extractive distillation, mainly ethylene glycol and glycerol. In this work, an...

Topic distillation is the process of finding representative pages relevant to a given query. Well-known topic distillation approaches such as the HITS algorithm have shown to be useful in identifying high quality pages of the most popular topic within a query specific graph of hyperlinked documents. Many succeeding researchers focus on augmenting HITS with further content analysis to alleviate ...

many parameters affect essential oil yield and chemical composition of aromatic plants. for obtaining the highest quantity and quality of essential oil, it is necessary to know the proper methods of drying and distillation. the aim of this research was to investigate the influence of drying and extraction methods on the yield and chemical composition of the essential oil of eucalyptus sargentii...

In positive systems inputs, state variables and outputs take only non-negative values. Examples of positive systems are industrial processes involving chemical reactors, heat exchangers and distillation columns, storage systems, compartmental systems, or water and atmospheric pollution models. A variety of models having positive linear behavior can be found in engineering, management science, e...

In positive systems inputs, state variables and outputs take only non-negative values. Examples of positive systems are industrial processes involving chemical reactors, heat exchangers and distillation columns, storage systems, compartmental systems, water and atmospheric pollution models. A variety of models having positive linear behavior can be found in engineering, management science, econ...

The composition of the essential oils of Teucrium chamaedrys L. belongs to the family Lamiaceae, It is growing wild in the margin of mountainous roads of arid and cold climate of north Iran. In this research, essential oils of Teucrium chamaedrys L., extracted and measured at the different location by different methods of distillationand then were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Investigation and com...

<p>Essential oils are one of the industry's major compounds, particularly in pharmaceutical, perfume and food sectors. They were acquired using several methods such as steam distillation. In this method, heat from will release aromatic molecule at their specific boiling points. Thus, it is important to regulate temperature correct level get perfect composition yield. Many studies have sho...

An important amount of work exists on the topic of optimal operation and control of batch distillation though it is still based on the assumption of an accurate process model being available. While this assumption is valid from a theoretical point of view, there will always remain the challenge of practical applications. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been recognised already as a particularly ...

Reactive distillation is an excellent example of recent advances in process intensification. It combines reaction and separation operations in one piece of equipment. This paper studies the steady-state economic optimum design of a chemical process with a generic exothermic reversible reaction A+B↔C+D for two different process flowsheets: a conventional multi-unit reactor/separator/recycle stru...