This article provides a bibliographic listing of journal papers published in 1996 concerned with distillation and other equilibrium-staged separation processes. The references are taken from the 50 most important chemical engineering journals. This paper provides an update to the literature as provided in previous bibliographic papers (1-5). A complete bibliographic listing of the chemical engineering journal literature from 1989 to 1996 (with subsequent 6 monthly updates) is available on a CD-ROM database (6), and full details can be obtained from the author. The following topics are included in this paper:Distillation Theory and Design MethodsDistillation Control and ApplicationsAbsorption Reactions and Absorber DesignLiquid-Liquid Extraction