State-of-the-art technologies for separation of azeotropic mixtures

• Main Authors: Mahdi, Taha H., Ahmad, Arshad, Nasef, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ripin, Adnan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56130/1/TahaHMahdi2015_StateoftheArtTechnologiesforSeparation.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56130/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15422119.2014.963607

Azeotropic separation technologies have been classified broadly into two major categories, i.e., distillation and membrane processes. Because normal distillation has limitations for azeotropic mixtures, enhancements have been proposed that either introduce a third component serving as an entrainer i...