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title: "Distillation Design"
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Distillation Design is a book which provides complete coverage of the design of industrial distillation columns for the petroleum refining, chemical and petrochemical plants, natural gas processing, pharmaceutical, food and alcohol distilling industries. It has been a classical chemical engineering textbook since it was first published in February 1992.
The subjects covered in the book include:

Vapor–liquid equilibrium(VLE): Vapor–liquid K values, relative volatilities, ideal and non-ideal systems, phase diagrams, calculating bubble points and dew points
Key fractional distillation concepts: theoretical stages, x-y diagrams, multicomponent distillation, column composition and temperature profiles
Process design and optimization: minimum reflux and minimum stages, optimum reflux, short-cut methods, feed entry location
Rigorous calculation methods: Bubble point method, sum rates method, numerical methods (Newton–Raphson technique), inside out method, relaxation method, other methods
Batch distillation: Simple distillation, constant reflux, varying reflux, time and boilup requirements
Tray design and tray efficiency: tray types, tray capacities, tray hydraulic parameters, tray sizing and determination of column diameter, point and tray efficiencies, tray efficiency prediction and scaleup
Packing design and packing efficiency: packing types, packing hydraulics and capacities, determination of packing efficiency by transfer unit method and by HETP method, packed column sizing


== See also ==
Chemical engineer – Professional designation branch of engineering
Continuous distillation – Form of distillation
Fenske equation – Equation used in chemical engineering
McCabe-Thiele method – Chemical engineering techniquePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook – 1934 reference book for chemical engineering
Transport Phenomena – First textbook about transport phenomena
Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering – 1956 textbook in chemical engineering
Batch distillation – Process in chemistry


== External links ==
McGraw Hill website page