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Reactive Distillation: A Review Of Optimal Design Using Deterministic And Stochastic Techniques, Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández, Salvador Hernández, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet

Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet

In the last years, the industries have shown interest in the development of reactive separation processes. Reactive distillation can be considered as reaction and distillation combined into one new unit operation and this integrated separation process is a good example of process intensification. This intensified process offers several important advantages that include the increment of the reaction yield and selectivity, the overcoming of thermodynamic restrictions and the considerable reduction in energy, water and solvent consumptions. Therefore, this process configuration has been applied in several chemical industries. However, due to the strong interactions of chemical reactions and heat and mass transfer, …