Energy-saving Distillation Technology For Prevention Against Global Warming

Continuing the Heritage of Pierre LeGoff and Takeichiro Takamatsu

In honour of the great heritage of Professors P. Legoff and T. Takamatsu, this symposium within the WCCE8 in Montreal 2009 offers a unique opportunity to focus on recent development of various energy-saving technologies for distillation processes which occupy the largest part in energy consumption of chemical industry. Various technological methods including vapour recompression column and internal heat integrated distillation column (named SRV or HIDiC) with heat pumping technology and Petlyuk or dividing-wall column will be discussed from a viewpoint of not only the energy-saving rate but also the potential for expanding the application window within the chemical industries.

As an increasing worldwide collaborative mission of chemical engineering for prevention against global warming, this one-day symposium will also present technical problems and applications showing quantitative comparison of various technologies with respect to the reduction of CO2 emission.

Scope

This topical conference is dedicated to advancements/developments in distillation hardware enabling significant improvement of energy efficiency of distillation columns. Typically, these methods cover :

  • Heat integrated distillation column or diabatic distillation column techniques
  • Vapour recompression techniques
  • Heat-coupling and dividing wall column techniques
  • Reactive distillation

This symposium will present recent advances in the development or improvement of energy-saving distillation techniques ranging from cryogenic separation to the recovery of less-volatile aromatics and fatty acids, current issues and limitations, and covers wide applications in chemical industry. This symposium will have not only an oral session but also a poster session within the same date.

Publication

This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to publish in European Journal of Chemical Engineering and/or Journal of Chemical Engineering, Japan.

Organizers

Dr. Kunio Kataoka (Chairman)
Executive Director
Kansai Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd
2-9-7 Minami-nanamatsu-cho, Amagasaki 660-0053, Japan
kataoka@kce.co.jp

Professor Zarko Olujic (Co-chairman)
Process & Energy Department
Delft University of Technology
Leeghwaterstraat 44
2628 CA Delft
The Netherlands
z.olujic@tudelft.nl

Organizing Committee

Dr. Masaru Nakaiwa
Deputy Director
Research Institute for Innovation in Sustainable Chemistryp
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
Nakaiwa-m@aist.go.jp

Dr. Ing. Prof. Ricardo Rivero
Head of the Exergy Group
Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo (IMP)
Eje Central Lazaro Cardenas Norte 152
07730 Mexico D.F.
rrivero@imp.mx rrivero@exergia.com.mx

Professor Hideki Mori
Depatment of Life and Material Engieering
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
mori.hideki@nitech.ac.jp

Professor Shinji Hasebe
Department of Chemical Engineering
Kyoto University
Katsura Campus, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
Hasebe@cheme.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Dr. Norbert Asprion
Chemical Research and Engineering
BASF – The Chemical Company
BASF SE, GCE/E – M300, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany
norbert.asprion@basf.com

Dr. Hideo Noda
President
Kansai Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd
2-9-7 Minami-nanamatsu-cho, Amagasaki 660-0053, Japan
hnoda@kce.co.jp

Honorary Advisor
Dr. Colin Pritchard
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Energy Systems
School of Engineering
University of Edinburgh
The King's Buildings
Edinburgh EH9 3JK, UK
colin.pritchard@ed.ac.uk