Exergy Analysis of Reactive Distillation Coupled with High-Pressure Column for the Synthesis of Dimethyl Carbonate

In this article, the Dimethyl Carbonate (DMC) synthesis process was investigated thermodynamically based on a well-optimized DMC system for developed configuration, according to real industrial plant, presented by Huang et al. Exergy analysis performed using ProSimPlus software as an efficient modeling and simulation environment that is uniquely capable of exergy balance computations. The key operational variables such reflux ratio (Rr), feed temperatures, tray location were varied explore their impact total irreversibilities, global intrinsic efficiency, purity. influence high pressure (HP) column most effective parameter destruction purity, which also significantly increased duties HP reboiler condenser. steady state results are reported in comparison with those found literature, excellent match shown between them.