A team of researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and ...
Distillation is the predominant method for chemical separation across the petrochemical, pharmaceutical and fine-chemical industries. Traditional column designs often suffer from high thermal energy ...
Oil refining is necessary for transforming raw, unusable crude oil into valuable goods like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and ...
In this video, Fran Scott explains fractional distillation - the separation of crude oil into fractions. Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional ...
CORRECTION: This story was updated on Dec. 16, 2015, to correct the description of distillation and to clarify the separation difficulty posed by azeotropes. A new method for heating liquid mixtures ...