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Optimize Energy Use in Distillation

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March

2012

Douglas C. White

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Nonlinearities in the response of a column to changes in operating conditions and in common economic valuation functions can have significant impacts on the economic optimum energy consumption for the column. Here’s a way to account for such nonlinearities.

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