Analyze approaches for saving energy in extractive distillation process: optimization, thermal integration and thermal coupling.
Use of a systematic procedure to find the range of all possible solutions, which includes the global optimum point of operation studied sequences.
A thermally coupled extractive distillation sequence with a side rectifier did not always present the best results.
In case of retrofit, it is more advantageous using the preheating of the azeotropic feed with the recycle stream of the conventional.