Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:36:35 +0100 
To: fonyo.vmt@chem.bme.hu,truls.gundersen@maskin.ntnu.no, 
 erik.wolff@no.abb.com 
From: Hilde Engelien <hilde.engelien@chemeng.ntnu.no> 
Subject: PhD Thesis Engelien 
Cc: skoge@chembio.ntnu.no 


Dear committe members,


Please find attached a perliminary version of my thesis.  The thesis consists of the following chapters:


Chapter 1- Introduction
Chapter 2- A brief overview of heat-integrated distillation systems and thesis problem statement
Chapter 3- Shortcut methods for analysis of ternary multi-effect distillation columns
Chapter 4- Minimum vapour flowrate disgrams for multi-effect heat-integrated prefractionator columns
Chapter 5- Selecting appropriate control variables for a heat-integrated distillation system with prefractionator
Chapter 6- Multi-effect distillation applied to an industrial case study
Chapter 7- Conlcuding remarks
Appendix A-  Modelling and simulations
Appendix B- Implementation of optimal operation for heat-integrated distillation columns
Appendix C- Minimum vapour flow of different distillation arrangements


I would like to point out that Chapter 6 is in a draft form and that there may be some changes here. Also, a table of contents will be added later.


Thank you very much for your time and for agreeing to be in the committe.


With kind regards,


Hilde Engelien



Hilde K. Engelien
Dr.ing student
Department of Chemical Engineering
Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
7491 Trondheim
Norway


Phone :      + 47 73 59 58 67
e-mail :      engelien@chemeng.ntnu.no
web-page:  http://www.nt.ntnu.no/~engelien/