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The times given are in CET.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Brief introduction, new component, data estimation & regression - Thermodynamic wizard, pure component and mixture models - Binary interaction parameters (BIPs), sources, regression, estimation (VLE)
9:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Binary LLE & heteroazeotropes - Solid-liquid equilibria, calculation, regression - Electrolytes, apparent and true components, reactions, acid-base titration
11:15 AM
Break
1:00 PM
Azeotropes, residual curves in ternary mixtures, conceptual design - Final workshop & discussion, open questions
2:00 PM
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Modelling of VLE & VLLE in a nutshell - Azeotropic behaviour & infite dilution activity coefficients - Distillation Modelling via the equilibrium stage approach - single & multiple stage equipment - Stripping & rectifying, mass balance & McCabe-Thiele
9:00 AM
Break
10:45 AM
Workshop: McCabe-Thiele from simulation result profile - Excel-VBA - Workshop: McCabe-Thiele VBA-macro - Optimum feed stage & pinching, cure pinching - Minimum reflux ratio & tangent pinch - Complex columns
11:00 AM
Break
12:30 PM
Multicomponent columns & key components - Component lumping - Interpreting composition & temperature profiles - Hengstebeck-, key-ratio & d/b-plots from result profile - Workshop: Hengstebeck-, key-ratio & d/b-plots in Excel
1:30 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Column profile in ternary diagrams, distillation & residual curves, distillation fields - Balance lines & mixing points - application examples - final discussion, open questions
3:15 PM