**Meet the editor**

Dr Sina Zereshki, born in 1980, received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering (Separation Processes field) from Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran in 2011. He is now a faculty member of Kermanshah University of Technology, and acts as the Chairman of Chemical Engineering Department of KUT. His publications include more than 15 ISI papers and several scientific conference

presentations. His university lectures are mass transfer, unit operations and simulation of chemical processes including distillation process.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Modeling and Simulation 1** 

Chapter 1 **Modeling and Control Simulation** 

Christopher Enweremadu

Chapter 3 **The Design and Simulation of the** 

Wei Wei and Yuhan Sun

Chapter 5 **Distillation of Natural Fatty Acids** 

and James A. Kenar

Chapter 6 **Changes in the Qualitative and** 

Vu Trieu Minh and John Pumwa

**for a Condensate Distillation Column 3** 

Chapter 2 **Energy Conservation in Ethanol-Water Distillation** 

**Synthesis of Dimethyl Carbonate and the Product Separation Process Plant 61** 

Chapter 4 **Batch Distillation: Thermodynamic Efficiency 91**  José C. Zavala-Loría and Asteria Narváez-García

> **and Their Chemical Derivatives 109**  Steven C. Cermak, Roque L. Evangelista

**Quantitative Composition of Essential Oils of Clary Sage and Roman Chamomile** 

Susanne Wagner, Angela Pfleger, Michael Mandl and Herbert Böchzelt

Sergio Nicolau Freire Bruno

**During Steam Distillation in Pilot Plant Scale 141** 

Chapter 7 **Distillation of Brazilian Sugar Cane Spirits (Cachaças) 159** 

Feng Wang, Ning Zhao, Fukui Xiao,

**Part 2 Food and Aroma Concentration 107** 

**Column with Vapour Recompression Heat Pump 35** 
