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Article: Distillation: a look to the future. (Distillation)
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- Process Engineering
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- October 1, 1992
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For such 'mature' technologies, distillation and absorption managed to generate plenty of ideas at last month's international conference on the subject. Mike Spear reports on some of the highlights.
Maturity is a relative term, of course, but surely distillation has come of age? As an industrial separation process it has been in worldwide use since at least the 1920s and is the preferred process for some 5 billion tonnes/year of product in the world's oil refineries alone. Add to that its widespread use in the petrochemicals, natural gas, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals industries, and its position as one of the leading unit operations in process engineering seems ...