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Continuous distillation is an ongoing process in which a liquid mixture of two or more miscible components is continuously fed into the process and continuously separated into two or more products by preferentially boiling the more volatile components out of the mixture. Distillation is one of the unit operations of chemical engineering.[1][2][3][4] If the feed mixture consists of only two components, the process is referred to as binary distillation.
Continuous distillation is used widely in the chemical process industries where large quantities of liquids have to be distilled, as in petroleum refining, natural gas processing, petrochemical production, coal tar processing and the liquefaction of gases such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and helium).
If the feed contains more than two components, it is referred to as multi-component distillation.
- ↑ Kister, Henry Z. (1992). Distillation Design, 1st Edition. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-034909-6.
- ↑ King, C.J. (1980). Separation Processes. McGraw Hill. 0-07-034612-7.
- ↑ Perry, Robert H. and Green, Don W. (2007). Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 8th Edition. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-142294-3.
- ↑ McCabe, W., Smith, J. and Harriott, P. (2004). Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 7th Edition. McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-284823-5.