Rules for entrainer selection in azeotropic distillation has been studied a decade ago by pham and doherty 3, and updated recently in the books of fair and. Lecture 15 enhanced distillation and supercritical. Dimian, florin omota and alfred bliek department of chemical engineering, university of amsterdam, nieuwe achtergracht 166, 1018 wv amsterdam, the netherlands correspondent. Pdf last few years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of applications of reactive distillation rd. An innovative entrainerenhanced reactive distillation rd process is presented, which aims to the production of highpurity butyl cellosolve acetate from butyl. Abstract this paper presents a novel approach in reactive distillation rd processes, the use of a mass separation agent entrainer. Synthesis and design of reactive distillation columns. Doherty and malone 9, and also in a recent book on reactive separations 10. This technique enables to overcome limitations due to distillation boundaries, and increase the degrees of freedom in design. Enhanced distillation cases when ordinary distillation is not economical. Until now, butyl acetate, a product of the esterification reaction, has been used as an internal entrainer in the production of butyl acetate. Entrainerenhanced reactive distillation sciencedirect.
Design and simulation of an entrainerenhanced ethyl acetate. Her guidance and comments were essential for making this thesis possible. This paper presents an approach to intensify a reactive distillation rd process for ethyl acetate etac production using a mass separation agent entrainer. Request pdf entrainerenhanced reactive distillation for the production of butyl acetate a new reactive distillation rd process using a mass separation agent extraneous entrainer for the.
Entrainerenhanced reactive distillation semantic scholar. Entrainerbased reactive distillation for esterification of glycerol. As application the catalytic esterification of fatty acids with light alcohols c2c4 is studied. Entrainerbased reactive distillation for the synthesis of 2. Entrainerenhanced reactive distillation for the production of butyl. Enhanced distillation cases when ordinary distillation is not economicalboiling point difference between components is less than 50. Request pdf entrainerenhanced reactive distillation this paper presents a novel approach in reactive distillation rd processes, the use of a mass separation agent entrainer. Pdf industrial applications of reactive distillation. Journals az books and reference advertising media kit. In a reactive distillation column, both the chemical conversion and the distillative separation of the product mixture are carried out simultaneously. A new reactive distillation rd process using a mass separation agent extraneous entrainer for the efficient production of butyl acetate from butanol and acetic acid via an esterification reaction was proposed. Design of entrainerenhanced reactive distillation for the synthesis of.
Through this integrative strategy, chemical equilibrium limitations can be overcome, higher selectivities can be achieved and heat of reaction can be directly used for. The entrainer may also enhance the separation efficiency by. Entrainer selection approach for distillation column. Entrainerenhanced reactive distillation alexandre c. The results indicate that entrainerbased semibatch reactive distillation can enhance the selectivity toward triacetin to about 100%, which is. Conceptual design of reactive distillation columns using stage composition lines matthias groemping, ramonam dragomir and megan jobson degussa ag, hanau, germany department of process integration, umist, manchester, uk a conceptual design methodology for the synthesis of reactive distillation columns is presented. A new reactive distillation rd process using a mass separation agent extraneous entrainer for the efficient production of butyl acetate from. Entrainerenhanced reactive distillation request pdf. This paper presents a novel approach in reactive distillation rd processes, the use of a mass separation agent entrainer. Wang and wong5 studied an entrainerbased reactive distillation process for the.
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