Publication Date:
2016-09-14
Description:
The drive towards greater sustainability has prompted process industries to search for opportunities to decrease their production costs, energy consumption, equipment size, and environment impact as well as improve the raw material yields, remote control, and process flexibility. Process intensification (PI), which is defined as a set of innovative principles applied to the design of processes and equipment to satisfy all those concerns, has become the main trend for improving the process performance. PI is used widely in heat transfer, reactions, separation, and mixing, which results in plant compactness, cleanliness and energy efficiency. This paper reviews briefly some of the main intensified separation processes and improvement mechanisms. This study focused mainly on the PI of distillation processes, which are the most important separation methods. In addition to these technologies, the potential and reliability of reactive separation processes are addressed briefly, which will enable industry to achieve higher efficiency and high capacity. The recent developments in current research are summarized to highlight the importance as well as the effects, challenges, and future prospects of PI.
Print ISSN:
0930-7516
Electronic ISSN:
1521-4125
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
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