September 2024

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Accurate thermodynamic modeling enables accurate predictive process simulation models.

The Bhopal gas tragedy stands as a stark reminder of the critical importance of process safety management. Forty years after the disaster, this article emphasizes the significance of the event and what it reveals about the prevailing process safety culture.

Optimizing heat integration within a process scheme can yield significant energy savings, especially when an energy-intensive operation like distillation is involved. This article illustrates a simple graphical method for optimizing the heat integration of distillation columns using side reboilers.