Distillation: Fundamentals and Principles

Professor Andrzej Górak is Chair of Fluid Separations at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany and Professor at the Technical University of Łódz, Poland. He received his PhD from the Institute of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Łódz where he continued his work as a senior researcher. He then assumed the same position at Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf. In 1992, Prof. Górak completed his postdoctoral “Habilitation at RWTH Aachen and was appointed Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund. Between 1996 and 2000, he was Chair of Fluid Separations at Essen University, before returning to and taking over the Chair at the TU Dortmund.

Eva Sorensen is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of Department at UCL. She holds an MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from NTNU and an MA in Higher Education from UCL. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Royal Academy of Engineering. She also holds fellowships of the UK Higher Education Academy and the European Society for Engineering Education. She is an Editor of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design, having previously served as its Editor-in-Chief. In 2023, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in King Charles III’s Birthday Honours for services to chemical engineering and education. Her research focuses on the optimisation, control and process intensification of complex fluid separation processes, with particular emphasis on distillation.