Preliminary Program subject to change
02A04 Distillation: Processes and Modeling I
OverviewThis session will center on current and future technologies in the arena of distillation.
Primary SponsorDistillation and Absorption (02a)

Chair

Ross Taylor
Chemical Engineering
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY 13699
Phone Number: 315-268-6652
Email: taylor@clarkson.edu

CoChair

Nicholas F. Urbanski
Distillation and Absorption Area Chair
AIChE Separations Division
7989 Jones Road
College Station, TX 77845-8066
Phone Number: 979-260-9272
Email: SepDivArea2a@aol.com
A Computationally Efficient Method to Generate a Complete Search Space for Multicomponent Distillation Sequences
Vishesh H. Shah, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, Arun Giridhar, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907 and Rakesh Agrawal, School of Chemical Engineering and Energy Center at Discovery Park, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Analysis of Absorption with Complex Reversible Reaction
Jerry H. Meldon, Tufts University, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Medford, MA 02155
Control of the Heterogeneous Azeotropic N-Butanol/water Distillation System
William L. Luyben, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Design of Reactive Distillation Processes Using Simulated Annealing
J. K. Cheng1, Hao-Yeh Lee2, Hsiao-Ping Huang3 and Cheng-Ching Yu1, (1)Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 107-16, Taiwan, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Development of Start-up Control Concepts for Dividing-Wall Distillation Columns Based on Simulations and Experiments
Gerit Niggemann, Maria A. Vargas Gomez and Georg Fieg, Process and Plant Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Schwarzenbergstr. 95c, Hamburg, Germany
Dynamic Control of a Column / Side-Reactor Process
Devrim B. Kaymak, Chemical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey and William L. Luyben, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Dynamic Modeling and Optimization of Thermally Coupled Dual-Column Batch Distillation Processes
Girish S. Joglekar1, Rakesh Agrawal2, Jong-Ho Moon3 and Gintaras V. Reklaitis3, (1)Batch Process Technologies, Inc., 1291 Cumberland Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47906, (2)School of Chemical Engineering and Energy Center at Discovery Park, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, (3)Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Energy-Efficient Complex Column Synthesis
Libin Zhang1, Jeonghwa Moon2, Benyamin Grosman2 and Andreas A. Linninger3, (1)University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St., SEO 218, Chicago, IL 60607, (2)Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St., Room 218, Chicago, IL 60607, (3)Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St., Room 218, Chicago, IL 60607
Experimental and Modeling Results for Rich Gas Absorption of HCl in Caustic Solutions
John Pendergast1, Jacinto Lopez-Toledo1, Patrick Au-Yeung2 and Dennis Jewell1, (1)The Dow Chemical Company, 2301 N Brazosport Blvd, Freeport, TX 77541, (2)The Dow Chemical Company, Dow Center, Midland, MI 48640
Hydrodynamics Modeling of Modern Catalytic Structured Packings
Elisabetta Brunazzi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Chimica Industriale e Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Pisa, Via Diotisalvi 2, Pisa, Italy and Ricardo Macías-Salinas, ESIQIE-Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, UPALM, Av. IPN s/n, Col. Lindavista, México, D.F., 07738, Mexico
Molecular Distillation Modeling and Simulation to Split Heavy Petroleum Fractions
Lamia Zuñiga Liñan1, Nádson M. N. Lima1, Maria Regina Wolf Maciel1, Rubens Maciel Filho1, César B. Batistella1, Flavio Manenti2, Davide Manca2 and Lílian C. Medina3, (1)School of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, P.O. Box 6066, 13083-970, Campinas-SP, Brazil, (2)CMIC Dept. “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, I-20133, Milano, Italy, (3)Processos Valoração de Petróleo CENPES/PDP/TPAP, PETROBRAS, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
On a New Way of Looking at Energy Efficient Distillation Processes with An Emphasis on Dividing Wall (and other complex) Columns
Ross Taylor, Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, Lisa Nelson, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699 and Angelo Lucia, University of Rhode Island, Dept of Chem. Engineering, Kingston, RI 02881
On Specifications Limitations In Multistage Binary Distillation by the Method of Mccabe and Thiele
Kal Renganathan Sharma, Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Prairie View A & M University, PO Box 519 MS 2505, Room 201A, C. L. Wilson Building, Prairie View, TX 77446
Optimal Design and Operation of Batch Distillation Columns with Regard to Reboiler Liquid Swelling
Levente L. Simon, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Safety and Environmental Technology Group, ETH Zurich, G-138, HCI, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, 8093, Switzerland and Konrad Hungerbuehler, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Safety and Environmental Technology Group, ETH Zurich, HCI, ETH Hoenggerberg, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Optimal Design of Three-Phase Reactive Distillation Columns Using Nonequilibrium/collocation Models
Theodoris Damartzis, Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute, Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, P.O. Box 60361, Thermi-Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece and Panos Seferlis, Mechanical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 424, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
Optimal Operation and Feedback Control of Reactive Batch Distillation In Middle-Vessel Columns
Harvey Arellano-Garcia, Irisay Carmona and Guenter Wozny, Chair of Process Dynamics and Operation, Berlin Institute of Technology, Str. des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
Progresses In Fully Dynamic Distillation Modelling
Ivan Dones1, Flavio Manenti2, Heinz A. Preisig1 and Guido Buzzi-Ferraris2, (1)Chemical Engineering, NTNU, S. Saelandsveg 6, Trondheim, 7491, Norway, (2)CMIC Dept. “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, I-20133, Milano, Italy
Retrofit of Distillation Columns In a Methanol Plant
Yasar Demirel, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588
Towards Predicting Catalyst Performance In Reactive Distillation Systems
Heather E. Todd, Katarina Novakovic, Mark J. Willis and Allen R. Wright, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University, Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering, Merz Court, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Water as Separating Agent In the Separation of the Acetone-Methanol Azeotropic Mixture
Iván Dario Gil Chaves and Diana Carolina Botia Gil, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Calle 19A 1-37 Este office ML-729, Bogotá, Colombia

Separations Division