Analysis and Multiple Steady States of an Industrial Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation
Analysis and Multiple Steady States of an Industrial Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation
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DOI:
10.1021/ie000808s
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发表时间:
2001-06
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
M. Gaubert;V. Gerbaud;X. Joulia;and Pierre Sere Peyrigain;M. Pons
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作者:
M. Gaubert;V. Gerbaud;X. Joulia;and Pierre Sere Peyrigain;M. Pons
A study of an industrial multicomponent heterogeneous azeotropic distillation is presented. The process concerns an organic acid dehydration using an immiscible entrainer. First, a validation of the MESH and thermodynamic models through a comparison between pilot-plant experimental reconciled data and simulation results is conducted. A four-component mixture is considered for the simulation. Case studies of the boiler heat duty are automatically generated by an operating path tool. An ∞/∞ analysis is performed for the heterogeneous azeotropic pilot column and an industrial column with a decanter. Because of practical constraints, the pilot and the industrial columns do not have the same reflux policies. This leads the ∞/∞ analysis to predict multiple steady states for the industrial unit but not for the pilot column. However, multiple steady states are found by simulation both for the pilot and for the industrial unit. Multiple steady states are confirmed by simulation and experimental data for the indust...