Distillation, absorption and extraction belong to the oldest and most mature separation technologies. They require often big columns and are energy intensive. In the chemical processing industry these separations are applied usually for the purification of the products, recycling of solvents or catalysts, etc. and are placed as a last step of a production process, after the chemical reactor(s)....

The residue curve mapping technique (RCM) has been considered a powerful tool for the flow-sheet development and preliminary design of conventional multi-component separation processes. It does not only represent a good approximation to actual equilibrium behavior, but also it allows performing feasibility analysis of separation processes where non-ideal and azeotropic mixtures are involved. Ap...

Reactive distillation has received intense attention due to the well known benefits of integrating distillation with reaction in a single unit. While there are procedures available for the synthesis of non-reactive columns and of reaction-separation systems, the design of reactive distillation columns is still a challenge. This work presents a new synthesis and design methodology for reactive d...

The morphology and dynamics of polymerization-induced phase separation in the initially homogeneous solution of a non-reactive component in reactive monomers are investigated by incorporating the reaction kinetics into the Cahn–Hilliard equation. Analytical results show that there is a reduction of the initial length scale in the early stage of phase separation. The reason is the increase of th...

The semiparametric statistical model is used to formulate the problem of blind source separation. The method of estimating functions is applied to this problem. It is shown that estimation of the mixing matrix or its learning rule version is given by an estimating function. The statistical e ciencies of these algorithms are studied. The main results are as follows 1) The space of all the estima...

The separation (or removal) of organic residues from aqueous waste streams released from industries is important and essential from the points of view of pollution control and recovery of useful materials. The disposal of waste waters containing most widely-used industrial organic acids such as acetic acid, formic acid and propionic acid has been recognized as a significant expense to the indus...