Distillation. Pretreatment. General column distillation. Components of distillation system. History
of distillation. types of distillation column. Atmospheric and vacuum distillation: atmospheric
distillation. Vacuum distillation. Equipment: columns. Packings. Trays. Other processes: stripping.
Rerunning. Super fractionation. Azeotropic distillation. Extractive distillation. Process options for
heavy feedstocks. Crude oil distillation: distillation process. Cut points of various fractions. Crude
tower design. Vacuum tower design.