This article provides a bibliographic listing of journal papers published in 1997 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 (1-6). A complete bibliographic listing of the chemical engineering journal literature from 1959 to 1997 (with subsequent 6 monthly updates) is available on a CD-ROM database (7), and full details can be obtained from the author. The following topics are included in this paper: Distillation Theory and Design Methods Distillation Control and Applications Column Design Data Absorption Reactions and Absorber Design Cooling Towers Liquid-Liquid Extraction Supercritical Extraction.