Chapter 18 Ethanol distillation: the fundamentals

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Represented in Figure 1 is a typical distillation tower that could be employed to separate an ideal mixture. Such a system would contain the following elements: a. a feed composed of the two components to be separated, b. a source of energy to drive the process (in most cases, this energy source is steam, either directly entering the base of ...

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