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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Pasteurization, Distillation, Filtration, Spray drying, Fractional distillation, Settling, Cooling tower, Extrusion, Chemical plant, Vapor-compression refrigeration, Liquid-liquid extraction, Freeze-drying, Laboratory centrifuge, Vacuum distillation, Froth flotation, Fractionating column, Flash evaporation, Fluidized bed reactor, Theoretical plate, Vapor-compression evaporation, Chemical engineer, Cross-flow filtration, Centrifugation, Fractional freezing, McCabe-Thiele method, Process design, Cryogenic oxygen plant, Separation process, Acid-base extraction, Aqueous two-phase system, Mixing, Homogenization, Process engineering, Spiral separator, Spinning cone, Steam distillation, Fractionation, Azeotropic distillation, Chemical tank, Vertical form fill sealing machine, Vapor-liquid separator, Falling film evaporator, Kozeny-Carman equation, COCO simulator, Sedimentation coefficient, Unit operation, Distillation Design, Process flowsheeting, Pultrusion, Kinetic fractionation, K-factor, Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, Clearing factor, Membrane operation, Colloid mill. Excerpt: Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their boiling points. Distillation is a unit operation, or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction. Commercially, distillation has a number of applications. It is used to separate crude oil into more fractions for specific uses such as transport, power generation and heating. Water is distilled to remove impurities, such as salt from seawater. Air is distilled to separate its components-notably oxygen, nitrogen, and argon-for industrial use. Distillation of fermented solutions has been used since ancient times to produce distilled beverages with a higher alcohol content. The premises where distillation is carried out, especially distillation of al...
