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Article: The workhorse today & tomorrow--distillation. (100 A Century of Service to the CPI).
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- Chemical Engineering
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Distillation is, far and away, the predominant method for separating liquid mixtures, and that situation seems certain to continue. But paradoxically, to a chemical engineering student entering a graduate program, work in distillation is considered unrewarding, in the literal sense of the word. To his or her professor, it offers little opportunity for financial support. We continue to see truth in the oft-quoted June 1997 Chemical Engineering editorial by Richard Zanetti, "Distillation: a Technology in Crisis?," in which he laments the lack of funding available for research in distillation and the resulting avoidance of the field by new, aspiring engineering professors.
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