Systematic design of energy efficient extractive distillation column for azeotrope mixture

Computation of an extractive distillation column with affine arithmetic

The need of reliably solving systems of nonlinear equations often arises in the everyday practice of chemical engineering. In general, standard methods cannot provide theoretical guarantee for convergence to a solution, cannot reliably find multiple solutions, and cannot prove non-existence of solutions. Interval methods provide tools to overcome these problems, thus achieving reliability. To t...

Shortcut Design of Extractive Distillation Columns

Extractive distillation is a common process for the separation of homogeneous azeotropic mixtures. In this process entrainer feed flowrate and reflux ratio of the extractive column represent the crucial design degrees of freedom which govern feasibility and operating cost. In this work feasibility and operational stability of the extractive column is related to the analysis of the nonlinear dyn...

Analysis of Different Pressure Thermally Coupled Extractive Distillation Column

In this contribution, a different pressure thermally coupled extractive distillation process has been applied on the separation of propylene and propane with aqueous acetonitrile (ACN) solution as entrainer. The novel distillation process integration is the combination of different pressure thermally coupled distillation (DPTCD) and extractive distillation (ED). Both the new process and the con...

Multicomponent batch distillation column design

A Systematic Approach to Distillation Column Control

This paper presents a systematic approach to distillation column control. The main emphasis is on the steps which precede the actual controller design, namely the modelling of the column and the selection of the control con guration. By control con guration in this context we mean the two independent variables used for composition control (for example, L and V;D and V , or L D and V B ). The st...