This article provides a bibliographic listing of journal papers publis
hed in 1996 concerned with distillation and other equilibrium-staged s
eparation processes. The references are taken from the 50 most importa
nt chemical engineering journals. This paper provides an update to the
literature as provided in previous bibliographic papers (1-5). A comp
lete bibliographic listing of the chemical engineering journal literat
ure from 1989 to 1996 (with subsequent 6 monthly updates) is available
on a CD-ROM database (6), and full details can be obtained from the a
uthor. The following topics are included in this paper: Distillation T
heory and Design Methods Distillation Control and Applications Column
Design Data Absorption Reactions and Absorber Design Cooling Towers Li
quid-Liquid Extraction Supercritical Extraction.