Process integration in distillation unit operations promises improved process efficiencies. However, to realize these benefits fit for purpose control structures are needed ensure stable and on-specification operations. In practice, this requires the development of regulatory advanced controls accounting nuances intricacies a given design application. This manuscript focuses on developing struc...

  Abstract: In this paper, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was used for modeling the nonlinear structure of a debutanizer column in a refinery gas process plant. The actual input-output data of the system were measured in order to be used for system identification based on root mean square error (RMSE) minimization approach. It was shown that the designed recurrent neural network is able to pr...

Dimethyl amino ethyl azide (DMAZ) is a good replacement for hydrazine group in space programs. This chemical was purified from water (1) + DMAZ (2) mixture in sub-atmospheric distillation column due to thermal sensitivity of DMAZ. For designing of the column, it is necessary to have vapor-liquid equilibrium data. In this article, T-x,y and y-x diagrams were obtain...

The fully thermally coupled distillation column offers an alternative to conventional distillation towers, with the possibility of savings in both energy and capital costs. This innovative and promising alternative provides the opportunity to separate a multicomponent mixture into fractions with high purities merely in one column. A lack of knowledge still exists when dealing with the startup o...

essential oil of the orange peel which was extracted by hydrodistillation method showed 50 different mono- and sesquiterpenes on gc-ms analysis, in which limonene had the highest percentage (92.4%). due to various important uses of the compound, a method was developed for isolation and purification of limonene. in this method, for extra purification, a fractional distillation on vigreux column ...

Fatty acid esterification is increasingly realized as a reactive distillation (RD) process because of its formation being affected by the chemical equilibrium. The reactive distillation column performance for the production of isopropyl palmitate by esterification of the palmitic acid with isopropanol has been studied in the present research. The reaction was catalyzed in the presence of zinc a...

Diphenyl carbonate (DPC) is a precursor in the production of polycarbonate, an important engineering thermoplastic with excellent mechanical and optical properties as well as electrical and heat resistance properties. Traditionally, DPC is synthesized by the transesterification reaction of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and phenol. In the study, phenyl acetate is used instead of phenol to react with ...

The simulation and steady state operation of a vapor recompression pilot plant distillation column is studied in order to improve the thermal efficiency. A binary system of ethanol-water mixture is used. The simulation is carried through ASPEN PLUS version 9.3-1. Energy reduction of 89.26% is obtained comparing to the conventional distillation and the thermodynamic efficiency is improved from 1...

Reactive distillation is the combination of reaction and separation in a same column. It is an attractive option whenever liquid phase reactant is in large excess. The energy requirement of the conventional column is very high and requires large recycling costs. RD column works close to the stoichiometric feed conditions thereby eliminating recycling costs and increases the efficiency of the co...

Vapour recompression system has been used to enhance reduction in energy consumption and improvement in energy effectiveness of distillation columns. However, the effects of certain parameters have not been taken into consideration. One of such parameters is the column heat loss which has either been assumed to be a certain percent of reboiler heat transfer or negligible. The purpose of this st...