Heterogeneous azotropes are common in distillation operations involving the removal of a component through the overhead. The azeotrope usually consists of water and other non water miscible organic component such as toluene. A common scheme to separate water from ethanol is to add a third component (benzene) to the column in order to form a low boiling azeotrope between benzene and water and separate the ethanol from the water.
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