Simulation Studies of Reactive Distillation for Ethyl Acetate Production
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Reactive distillation is an attractive option for equilibrium limited reactions. For highly nonideal systems, the selection of liquid phase activity model considerably influences the model predictions. In this work, activity models proposed in literature and available in RADFRAC module of Aspen Plus are compared for ethyl acetate production through reactive distillation. Also, a hybrid modelling approach, which can be easily implemented in RADFRAC, is proposed for this system. The simulation results show that the hybrid approach gives better predictions for this highly nonideal system.
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