Henry Z Kister: Distillation Diagnostics, Gebunden

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"Distillation is the major separation technique used in the chemical and petroleum industry, because of its low capital cost, easy scale-up, and not introducing agents that later need to be separated. Distillation is used to separate a mixture containing components having different boiling points. For example, crude oil is always separated by distillation into products such as light petroleum gases (LPG), gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, gas oils and residue. The residue is further distilled to make feeds to refinery conversion units such as FCC and hydrocrackers, and to produce lubricating oils, paraffin wax, asphalt, and other products. In chemical and petrochemicals industries, reactor products containing a multitude of compounds are purified by distillation to in the path to producing final products such as natural gas, polypropylene, PVC, polystyrene, formaldehyde, phenol, silicones, agricultural chemicals, paints, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, and many more. Not to mention the well-known distillation of alcohol to produce spirits, renewable fuels, and hand sanitizers. The vast majority of manufactured goods include several distillation steps along their production paths. Gas absorption is a related operation that removes impurities from gas streams such as toxic hydrogen sulfide from natural gas or pollutants from waste gases, using similar equipment"--