This article continues a series of annual bibliographic updates of the published literature (since 1980) on distillation and other equilibrium-staged separation processes (1-9). This paper provides a useful and quick reference source to the 2000 journal literature (from the fifty, most important chemical engineering journals) for researchers in this area. The following topics are included: Distillation Theory and Design Methods Distillation Control and Applications Column Design Data Absorption Reactions and Absorber Design Cooling Towers Liquid-Liquid Extraction Supercritical Extraction. A complete bibliographic listing of the chemical engineering journal literature from 1959 to 2000 (with subsequent six-monthly updates) is available on a CD-ROM database (10).