‘Short-path distillation,’ as the term indicates, is a distillate separation process that has been shortened. Any circumstance where the separation of liquid solution components is necessary uses the ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Fractional distillation works because the different liquids have different boiling points. When the mixture is heated: vapours rise through a column which is ...

Refinery vacuum distillation units (VDUs) use ejector systems to establish and maintain distillation-column pressure for capturing valuable crude fractions and reducing vacuum residuum. Reliable ...

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Distillation columns are extensively deployed in the chemical process industries when there is a need for separation of components that have different boiling points. Typically, a mixture of ...

This is Straight Up, a column by whiskey expert and author Heather Greene. Today, Greene breaks down how exactly whiskey is made. Unless you’ve been living without the internet, you surely know that ...