The petrochemical industry is a pillar industry for the development of the national economy affecting people’s daily living standards. Crude distillation process is the core and leading unit of the petrochemical industry. Its energy consumption...
A comprehensive study was conducted to elucidate the effect of operating conditions on the performance of a multi-effect vacuum membrane distillation pilot plant. A theoretical assessment of the energy and exergy efficiency of the process was achieve...
The crude distillation unit (CDU) is one of the most energy-intensive processes of a petroleum refinery. The composition of crude is subject to change on regular basis. The uncertainty in crude oil composition causes wastage of a substantial amount o...
This study presents a comprehensive design, optimization, and intensification approach for enhancing the energy efficiency of electric grade isopropyl alcohol (IPA) production, a typical energy-intensive chemical process. The process entails preconce...
This paper addresses a retrofitting vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) setup to reduce the accumulated pressure inside the permeated side. This modification is necessary to extend the operation of the VMD to extreme operation conditions of higher hot...
Distillation is significantly influenced by energy costs, prompting a need to explore effective strategies for reducing energy consumption. Among these, heat integration is a key approach, but evaluating its efficiency is paramount. Therefore, this s...
Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally driven desalination process that has excellent application prospects in seawater desalination or hypersaline wastewater treatment, while severe temperature polarization (TP) and the resulting relatively high...
Oil refineries play a crucial role in meeting global energy demands, and optimizing the efficiency of critical processes is vital for economic feasibility and environmental sustainability. Simulation is an essential tool for the optimization of valua...
Vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) is a promising desalination technology, which is likely to be integrated with solar energy, and offers a sustainable solution to freshwater scarcity. However, its industrial application remains limited due to high s...
The use of waste incineration with energy recovery is a matured waste-to-energy (WtE) technology. Waste incineration can reduce the volume and mass of municipal solid waste significantly. However, the generation of high volumes of polluting flue gase...
Extracting ethanol by steam directly from fermented solid-state bagasse is an emerging technology of energy-efficient bioethanol production. With continuous solid-state distillation (CSSD) approach, the vapor with more than 25 wt% ethanol flows out o...
Thailand is an agricultural country with several agro-industrial by-products that can be processed into fuels. Although producing ethanol from agro-industrial by-products is an interesting option, the process of distilling ethanol from fermented agri...
Butyl acetate (BuAc) is widely used as a solvent in many applications, mainly in the food and pharmaceutical industries. The conventional process for BuAc production is both capital and energy intensive. The purification process involves the separati...
Wine batch distillation in a copper pot still heated directly by combustion is unusual. It is a niche sector. Few studies are available on the subject and even fewer have studied it from a thermal point of view. In a context of ecology awareness and...
Exergy analyses are essential tools for the performance evaluation of water desalination and other separation systems, including those featuring membrane distillation (MD). One of the challenges in the commercialization of MD technologies is its subs...
The dehydration of isopropanol (IPA) is a crucial process in numerous industries, and the optimization of its efficiency and economic viability is essential. This review provides a comprehensive analysis and comparison of various distillation process...
Distillation is widely recognized as the preferred method for separation due to its operational and control benefits. Traditional distillation processes, however, cannot successfully separate azeotropic mixtures with near boiling points. Numerous spe...
Hydrogen energy, as a clean, renewable, and high-calorific energy carrier, has garnered significant attention globally. Among various hydrogen production methods, the thermochemical iodine–sulfur (I-S) cycle is considered the most promising due...
A distillation system with an ejector for secondary steam utilization can effectively improve energy efficiency. However, the poor performance of the ejector under varying operating conditions makes it difficult for the distillation system to adapt t...
This study presents the analysis of the exergy load distribution in a separation process by extractive distillation for ethanol dehydration. The methodology carried out is divided into three parts: the calculation of the flow exergy considering the p...
The global climate crisis has led society toward cleaner energy sources. Another reason is the limited reserves of fossil energy resources. Efforts to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic modules (PVs) have gained momentum. The high temperature is...
Increasing the evaporation zone inside the solar distiller (SD) is a pivotal method for augmenting its freshwater production. Hence, in this work, a newly designed prismatic absorber basin covered by linen wicks was utilized instead of the convention...
The separation of butadiene 1,3 from pyrolysis products is a critical step in the petrochemical industry, as butadiene is a key raw material for producing synthetic rubber and other polymers. This study presents a detailed model-based analysis of the...
This perspective describes different schemes of power systems integration for various process technology in oil refining and petrochemistry with a focus on distillation. An overview is given of different methods of gas turbines and turboexpanders. Ap...
Vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) is a compelling technique for desalinating water because it exhibits superior pure water permeability at lower operating temperatures compared to other membrane distillation technologies. This leads to reduced energ...
The processes of extractive distillation and heteroazeotropic distillation of mixtures containing water and a high-boiling component (propionic acid, acetic acid, 1-methoxy-2-propanol) are compared. Entrainers declared in the literature as effective...
This paper considers the process of multicomponent distillation. It is shown that energy consumption (per mole of mixture being separated) depends monotonously on efficiency if the capacity is constant and separation is reversible. Authors suggest th...
Nuclear power with strengthened safety regulations continues to be used as an important resource in the world for managing atmospheric greenhouse gases and associated climate change. This study examined the environmentally benign separation of zirc...
The production of green hydrogen requires renewable electricity and a supply of sustainable water. Due to global water scarcity, using seawater to produce green hydrogen is particularly important in areas where freshwater resources are scarce. This s...
The sustainable design of separation and polymer synthesis processes is of great importance. Therefore, an energy-efficient process for the purification of tetrahydrofuran (THF)–water (H2O) solvent mixtures from an upstream polymer synthesis process...
As the demand for human-friendly computing increases, research on pupil tracking to facilitate human–machine interactions (HCIs) is being actively conducted. Several successful pupil tracking approaches have been developed using images and a de...
This study aimed to determine the values of net energy (NE), digestible energy (DE) and metabolizable energy (ME) and digestibility coefficients of corn ethanol coproducts produced in Brazil and their effects on the nitrogen balance and blood paramet...
Extractive Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation (EHAD) is a highly efficient method for separating strongly non-ideal mixtures that exhibit azeotropy. EHAD employs an autoentrainer, typically water, which enables the separation of both ternary and q...
Despite their low distillate yield, single-slope basin solar stills incorporate a simple and cheap technique to secure potable water in arid and rural areas away from fresh water resources and the power grid. Nevertheless, recovering a portion of the...
Fossil fuels are being depleted, resulting in increasing environmental pollution due to greenhouse gases and, consequently, emerging detrimental environmental problems. Therefore, renewable energy is becoming more important; hence, significant resear...
This research presents an essential oil (EO) distillation method with improved efficiency, called recurrent water and steam distillation (RWASD), as well as the testing of a 500 L prototype essential oil distillation machine (500 L PDM). The raw mate...
In response to the current issues of high energy consumption, environmental pollution, and safety hazards associated with the vinyl chloride distillation process, this study has developed a sustainable, economically energy-efficient, and safe multi-o...
In this study, a thermal model for estimating the efficiency of a basin solar still with an external reflector was introduced using the energy balance equations of different parts of the solar still. Then, in order to verify the precision and accurac...
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have drawn increasing attention for their event-driven and energy-efficient characteristics. However, achieving accurate and efficient inference within limited time-steps remains a major challenge. This paper proposes a...
The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of cryomilling (CM) pretreatment on the isolation of fennel seeds essential oil (EO). Therefore, the study included (i) the process optimization and comparison of the efficiencies of hydrodistill...
This research offers valuable improvements in the efficiency and water yield of a parabolic dish concentrator (PDC) solar distillation system, contributing to more sustainable and effective renewable energy solutions. Three hybrid nanofluids were eva...
Water scarcity raises important concerns with respect to human sustainability and the preservation of important ecosystem functions. To satisfy water requirements, seawater desalination represents one of the most sustainable solutions. In recent deca...
This study investigates the effectiveness of combining magnets with parabolic and truncated fins in enhancing the distillation process of solar stills. The integration of magnets accelerated evaporation rates, while the fins increased the heat absorp...
Whisk(e)y is a major global distilled spirit beverage. Whiskies are produced from cereal starches that are saccharified, fermented and distilled prior to spirit maturation. The strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae employed in whisky fermentations is cr...
Desalination of sea or brackish water sources to provide clean water supplies has now become a feasible option around the world. Escalating global populations have caused the surge of desalination applications. Desalination processes are energy inten...
The by-products of the wine industry represent a global production of 10.5 to 13.1 million tons of wine pomace annually. This study examines the chemical composition and energy potential of wine pomace and distillation stillage, evaluating their suit...
Developing photothermal solar driven membrane distillation (PSDMD) is of great importance in providing fresh water for remote off-grid regions. The production of freshwater through the PSDMD is driven by the temperature difference between feed and di...
The main problem with existing desalination technologies is that they consume high input energy to generate fresh water. Secondly, this energy demand is usually met by conventional sources of energy such as fossil fuels. With limited conventional ene...
Reactive distillation (RD) combines chemical reactions and separation in a single unit essential to equilibrium-limited reactions. This new technique encompasses multiple advantages over traditional processes, including lower operating costs, increas...
It has been proposed that the air-cooled configuration for air gap membrane distillation is an effective way to simplify the system design and energy source requirement. This offers potential for the practical applications of membrane distillation on...
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