Heat pump assisted reactive distillation: Wide boiling mixture
Heat pump assisted reactive distillation: Wide boiling mixture
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DOI:
10.1002/aic.12518
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发表时间:
2011-11
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
A. Jana;A. Mane
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作者:
A. Jana;A. Mane
Distillation is one of the most important and widely used separation techniques both in chemical and petrochemical industries. It is used for about 95% of all fluid separation in the chemical industry. 1 Diez et al. 2 reported that 60% of energy used by the chemical industry was for distillation. It is surprising that the overall thermal efficiency of a conventional distillation is around 5–20%. 3 Because of the improper utilization of heat, the operating cost is not only increased, the environment could also be severely affected. During the transformation of energy in the industrial processes, the thermal effluents are generated in the form of flue gas, condensate, hot water, boiler blow down, etc. They cause thermal pollution and depletion of fossil fuel at a rapid rate. Therefore, the development of distillation technology aiming to improve the thermodynamic efficiency has captured the attention of many researchers. Most popular techniques of thermal coupling are internal energy integration4 and heat pumping. 2 In industrial practice, mechanical and absorption heat pumps are frequently used. In the former, the overhead vapor is compressed to a higher pressure and used to heat the bottom liquid in the reboiler, or the bottom liquid is flashed in a valve and used to condense the overhead vapor. In absorption heat pumps, a separate closed-loop fluid system is employed to transfer the heat up the temperature scale by means of heat of mixing.Heat pumping is an economic way to conserve energy if the temperature difference between the overhead and bottom of the distillation column is small and the heat load is high. To use this technique for wide boiling mixtures, the heat pump can be employed between the intercondenser and