Why study separation?

Why do we include distillation in our course? Well, it is one example of separation and separation is crucial for the environmental effects, energy requirements and economy for most processes.

Links to distillation screencasts

Intro:
Intro & overview    • Distillation: Intro & overview  
Phase equilibria    • Distillation: Phase equilbria  
Interpreting T-x,y and H-x,y diagrams    • Distillation: Interpreting T-x,y & H-x,y d...  
Overall design choices    • Distillation: Overall design  

Continuous destillation (McCabe-Thiele):
MB and EB    • Distillation: Deriving McCabe-Thiele using...  
Exam question    • Distillation: Exam task (Ethanol)  
Flux units & tray efficiency    • Distillation: Flux units & tray efficiency  
Nmin, Rmin, CAPEX & OPEX    • Distillation: Rmin, Nmin, CAPEX and OPEX  
Changing operating conditions    • Distillation: McCabe-Thiele Matlab Demo  
Spot what’s wrong    • Distillation: Spot-What's Wrong  

Wider context:
Separation    • Why study separation?  
DoF analysis distillation    • DoF analysis for distillation  

Special:
Lab intro    • D4-Distillation: Equilibrium stages and la...  
mol% w%    • D5-Tidbit: Translating mol% to weight%