Meet the editor

Professor Vilmar Steffen graduated from high school at Colégio Estadual São José, having received a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Western Paraná State University – Unioeste (2007), an MSc in Chemical Engineering (dissertation title: Modelling and Simulation of Reactive Distillation Columns) from the Western Paraná State University – Unioeste (2010), and a PhD in Chemical Engineering (thesis title: Determination of Ions

Sorption Isotherms Using Poisson-Boltzmann Equation) from the State University of Maringá (2014). He has successfully completed six months of a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Western Paraná State University – Unioeste (2015). Since February 2015, he has been Assistant Professor at the Academic Department of Chemical Engineering (DAENQ ) of the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) Câmpus Francisco Beltrão – Paraná – Brazil. His research work focuses on process modeling and simulation.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Vilmar Steffen*

*by Nguyen The Bao*

on Distillation Processes

*by Sergey Artemenko and Victor Mazur*

*and Juan Ortega*

Modeling

**Section 3**

Introductory Chapter: Distillation

in Batch Distillation Columns

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Distillation **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 29**

Phase Equilibrium **45**

**Chapter 4 47**

**Chapter 5 71**

Parametrization Procedure of a Thermodynamic Model and Its Repercussion

Fuzzy Logic Modeling and Observers Applied to Estimate Compositions

*Héctor Javier Vergara Hernández, Adriana del Carmen Téllez-Anguiano,* 

The Mathematical Model of Basin-Type Solar Distillation Systems

A Practical Fitting Method Involving a Trade-Off Decision in the

*by Adriel Sosa, Luís Fernández, Elena Gómez, Eugénia A. Macedo* 

Azeotrope-Breaking Potential of Binary Mixtures in Phase Equilibria

*by Mario Heras-Cervantes, Gerardo Marx Chávez-Campos,* 

*Juan Anzurez-Marin and Elisa Espinosa-Juárez*
