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Front Cover; Dedication; Distillation; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Theoretical Plates in Distillation, Absorption and Stripping Choice of Type of Column; 1.1. General; 1.2. McCabe and Thiele's method; 1.3. Global method (more than two components); 1.4. Successive plates method; 1.5. Conclusion; 1.6. Choice of type of column; Chapter 2: Design and Performances of Gas-Liquid Perforated Plates; 2.1. Geometry of the plate; 2.2. Drop in vapor pressure on crossing the plate; 2.3. Hydrodynamics of the plate; 2.4. Transfers of mass and heat.

Chapter 3: Design and Performances of Liquid-Gas Packed Columns 3.1. General; 3.2. Hydrodynamics of packed columns; 3.3. Effective height and useable height for the transfer; 3.4. Effects of the distribution of the liquid: dead height; Chapter 4: Batch Distillation; 4.1. Simple boiling; 4.2. Total-reflux distillation; 4.3. Batch distillation; APPENDICES; Appendix 1: A Few Expressions for Partial Vapor Pressures; A1.1. Henry's constant; A1.2. Empirical formulae; Appendix 2: Characteristics of Typical Packings; Appendix 3: Proposal For a Normalized Foaming Test; A3.1. Experimental protocol.

A3.2. Composition of the control solutionsAppendix 4: Numerical Integration: Runge-Kutta 4th Order Method; Appendix 5: Molar Retentions; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.

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