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Acknowledgments

The author is grateful to many people who have favored the creation of this book.
First, I express my gratitude to my closest assistant Roman Danilov whose
participation was really indispensable. Together with him, I have developed the
hitherto unrivaled software package that made it possible to check and put into
practice the main ideas of this book. He also designed all the illustrations without
which the book would not be comprehensible.
My debt of gratitude is to colleagues and research students who have taken part
in numerous projects for decades: Victoria Avetyan, Vyacheslav Kiyevskiy, Maya
Yampolskaya, Valentina Mashkova, Galina Inyayeva, Elizaveta Vinogradova,
Zhanna Bril, Boris Isayev, Alexander Shafir, and Oleg Karpilovskiy.
My encounter with Professor Vladimir Platonov gave rise to my interest in
distillation. Later acquaintance with Professor Leonid Serafimov led me to the
investigation of the most complicated problems concerning azeotropic mixtures.
A number of scientists approved of my working on the book and favored it. I
am grateful to Valeriy Kiva, Sigourd Skogestad, Arthur Westerberg, and Nikolay
Kulov.
I am grateful to Andry Kalinenko and Vyacheslav Kiyevskiy, chiefs of the
engineering firm ECT Service, where I have been working for a long time, for
providing me with much support in developing new methods and writing this book.
I express my gratitude to Norsk University of Science and Technology for
helping me when I was starting this book.
And I am thankful to my wife who made every effort so that my work would
go on.

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