Download or read book Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning written by Lanny Robbins and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the fundamentals and strategies of distillation columns, this book covers the process variables for continuous distillation columns, as well as four basic control strategies and the typical cases in which they are used. The author defines the inlet and outlet streams and process variables for a distillation column and then explains the overall concept of the separation and purification that is performed. Performance and product quality are described in terms of specification requirements, and tools and techniques for the optimization of quality performance are provided. Figures and graphs are included within the reference to illustrate concepts.