Knowledge distillation is an increasingly influential technique in deep learning that involves transferring the knowledge embedded in a large, complex “teacher” network to a smaller, more efficient ...

Distillation remains a backbone technology in the chemical process industry despite its historically high energy consumption. In recent years, research has focused on improving the thermal efficiency ...

A group of Japanese companies and researchers has developed a process to recover ammonia cheaply and with lower energy use ...

Following installation of a new air-cooled condenser as part of its crude distillation unit's preflash tower overhead, a US Midwestern refinery began producing off-spec light naphtha that led to ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Fractional distillation works because the different liquids have different boiling points. When the mixture is heated: vapours rise through a column which is ...