This article provides a bibliographic listing of journal papers published i
n 1997 concerned with distillation and other equilibrium-staged separation
processes. The references are taken from the 50 most important chemical eng
ineering journals. This paper provides an update to the literature as provi
ded in previous bibliographic papers (1-6). A complete bibliographic listin
g of the chemical engineering journal literature from 1959 to 1997 (with su
bsequent 6 monthly updates) is available on a CD-ROM database (7), and full
details can be obtained from the author. The following topics are included
in this paper:
Distillation Theory and Design Methods
Distillation Control and Applications
Column Design Data
Absorption Reactions and Absorber Design
Cooling Towers
Liquid-Liquid Extraction
Supercritical Extraction.