What is reactive distillation?
The integration of chemical reaction with distillation in one unit is called reactive distillation. This integrated equipment offers distinct advantages over the conventional, sequential approach. Especially for equilibrium limited reactions such as esterification, conversion can be increased far beyond chemical equilibrium conversion due to the continuous removal of reaction products from the reactive zone. This leads to significant reduction of capital and investment costs and offers a sustainable development due to a lower consumption of resources.
