Elsevier Special Distillation Processes

Special Distillation Processes, Second Edition focuses on the latest developments in the field, such as separation methods that may prove useful for solving problems encountered during research. Topics include extraction, membrane and adsorption distillation involving the separation principle, process design and experimental techniques. The relationship between processes and techniques are also presented. Comprehensive and easy-to-read, this book provides key information needed to understand processes. It will be a valuable reference source for chemical engineers and students wishing to branch out in chemical engineering. Review Provides details on the process intensification of distillation with high-efficient materials, equipment or operational methods From the Back Cover Special distillation processes are defined as process intensification of distillation unit with high-efficient materials, equipments or operational methods, especially for the separation of liquid mixtures close to boiling point or forming azeotropic mixtures into their pure components. In Special Distillation Processes, Second Edition, the authors focus on latest developments in the field, such as separation methods that may prove useful for solving problems encountered during research. Topics include extraction, membrane and adsorption distillation involving the separation principle, process design and experimental techniques. The relationship between the processes and the techniques are also presented. Comprehensive and easy-to-read, this book provides key information needed to understand the processes and is a valuable reference source for chemical engineers as well as students wishing to branch out in chemical engineering. About the Author Zhigang Lei was born in Hubei province (China) in 1973. He received his B.S. degree in 1995 from Wuhan Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. degree in 2000 from Tsinghua University. Then, he became a postdoctoral researcher in Beijing University of Chemical Technology working with Professor Chengyue Li. In 2003 – 2005, he worked as a researcher in Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan). In 2005 – 2006, he got the world-famous Humboldt Fellowship and carried out his research in Chair of Separation Science and Technology (Universität Erlange-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany). In 2006, he came back to China. He is now a Professor in State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering (BUCT, China). His current research interests include chemical process intensification and predictive molecular thermodynamics. He has contributed to about 140 papers in international journals and one book entitled “Special Distillation Processes published by Elsevier B.V. (2005). Chengna Dai was born in Hebei province (China) in 1984 and received her Ph.D. in 2013 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) under the supervision of Prof. Zhigang Lei. Thereafter she worked in BUCT to 2018, and then she works in Beijing University of Technology as an Associate Professor. Her current research interest is the reaction and separation science with ionic liquids as well as the corresponding predictive molecular thermodynamics. She has contributed to more than 50 papers in international journals. Biaohua Chen was born in Jiangxi province (China) in 1963. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1996 from China University of Petroleum (Beijing). In 2000, he was a visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Washington. He has received two National Science and Technology Progress Prize (second class), and a few provincial or ministerial level prizes. Now he is a member of the Standing Committee of Beijing Chemical Industry Association and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Petrochemical Universities (China). His main research interests are environmental and green chemistry. He has contributed to mor