Separation of an acetone-methanol mixture by pressure-swing batch distillation in a double-column system with and without thermal integration

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3785-3793

  Modla, Gabor ^a   Lang, Peter ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPIC MIXTURE; BATCH DISTILLATION; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; COLUMN SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC FLOWS; ENERGY DEMANDS; METHANOL MIXTURES; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PRESSURE GAP; PRESSURE SENSITIVE; RIGOROUS SIMULATION; SAVE ENERGY; THERMAL COUPLING; THERMAL INTEGRATION;

ACETONE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISTILLATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; METHANOL;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 77951169935     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9019352     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Lewis, W. K. Dehydrating Alcohol and the Like. U.S. Patent 1,676,700, July 10, 1928.
2. Black, C. Distillation Modelling of Ethanol Recovery and Dehydration Processes for Ethanol and Gasahol Chem. Eng. Prog. 1980, 76, 78 - 85
3. Abu-Eishah, S. I.; Luyben, W. L. Design and Control of Two-Column Azeotropic Column Azeotropic Distillation System Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Des. Dev. 1985, 24, 132 - 140
4. Chang, T.; Shih, T. T. Development of an Azeotropic Distillation Scheme for Purification of Tetrahydrofuran Fluid Phase Equilib. 1989, 52, 161 - 168
5. Knapp, J. P.; Doherty, M. F. A new pressure swing-distillation process for separating homogeneous azeotropic mixtures Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1992, 31, 346 - 357
6. Luyben, W. L. Comparison of Pressure Swing and Extractive Distillation Methods for Methanol Recovery Systems Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2005, 44 (15) 5715 - 25
7. Luyben, W. L. Comparison of Extractive Distillation and Pressure-Swing Distillation for Acetone-Methanol Separation Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2008, 47 (8) 2696 - 2707
8. Luyben, W. L. Design and Control of a Fully Heat-Integrated Pressure-Swing Azeotropic Distillation System Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2008, 47, 2681 - 2695
9. Lang, P.; Yatim, H.; Moszkowicz, P.; Otterbein, M. Batch Extractive Distillation under Constant Reflux Ratio Comput. Chem. Eng. 1994, 18, 1057 - 1069
10. Lelkes, Z.; Lang, P.; Benadda, B.; Moszkowicz, P. Feasibility of Extractive Distillation in a Batch Rectifier AIChE J. 1998, 44, 810 - 822
11. Milani, S. M. Optimization of Solvent Feed Rate for Maximum Recovery of High Purity Top Product in Batch Extractive Distillation Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1999, 77, 469
12. Hilal, H.; Yousef, G.; Langston, P. The reduction of extractive agent in extractive distillation and auto-extractive distillation Chem. Eng. Process. 2001, 41, 673 - 679
13. Lang, P.; Kovacs, Gy.; Kotai, B.; Gaal-Szilagyi, J.; Modla, G. Industrial application of a new batch extractive distillation operational policy Inst. Chem. Eng. Symp. Ser. 2006, 152, 830 - 839
14. Kotai, B.; Lang, P.; Modla, G. Batch Extractive Distillation as a Hybrid Process: Separation of Minimum Boiling Azeotropes Chem. Eng. Sci. 2007, 62, 6816 - 6826
15. Yao, J.-Y.; Lin, S.-Y.; Chien, I.-L. Operation and control of batch extractive distillation for the separation of mixtures with minimum-boiling azeotrope J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Eng. 2007, 38, 371 - 383
16. Laroche, L.; Bekiaris, N.; Andersen, H. W.; Morari, M. Homogeneous Azeotropic Distillation: Comparing Entrainers Can. J. Chem. Eng. 1991, 69, 1302 - 1319
17. Langston, P.; Hilal, N.; Shingfield, S.; Webb, S. Simulation and optimization of extractive distillation with water as solvent Chem. Eng. Process. 2005, 44, 345 - 351
18. Gil, I. D.; Botia, D. C.; Ortiz, P.; Sanchez, O. F. Extractive Distillation of Acetone/Methanol Mixture Using Water as Entrainer Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2009, 48, 4858 - 4865
19. Phimister, J. R.; Seider, W. D. Semicontinuous, Pressure Swing Distillation Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2000, 39, 122 - 130
20. Wasylkiewicz, S. K.; Kobylka, L. C.; Castillo, F. J. L. Pressure Sensitivity Analysis of Azeotropes Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2003, 42, 207 - 213
21. Repke, J. U.; Klein, A.; Bogle, D.; Wozny, G. Pressure Swing Batch Distillation for Homogenous Azeotropic Separation. Chem. Eng. Res. Des. 2007, 85 (4), 152, 492-501.
22. Modla, G.; Lang, P. Feasibility of new pressure swing batch distillation methods Chem. Eng. Sci. 2008, 63 (11) 2856 - 2874
23. Modla, G.; Lang, P.; Denes, F. Feasibility of separation of ternary mixtures by pressure swing batch distillation Chem. Eng. Sci. 2010, 65 (2) 870 - 881
24. Kopasz, A.; Modla, G.; Lang, P. Operation and Control of a New Pressure Swing Batch Distillation System Comp.-Aided Chem. Eng. 2009, 27, 1503 - 1508
25. CHEMCAD Dynamic Column Calculation User s Guide; Chemstations: Houston, TX, 2007.
26. Tochigi, K.; Inoue, H.; Kojima, K. Determination of azeotropes in binary systems at reduced pressures Fluid Phase Equilib. 1985, 22, 343 - 352
27. Wilsak, R. A.; Campbell, S. W.; Thodos, G. Vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements for the methanol-acetone system at 372.8, 397.7 and 422.6 K Fluid Phase Equilib. 1986, 28, 13 - 37
28. Rowlinson, J. S. Liquids and Liquid Mixtures, 2nd ed.; Plenum Press: New York, 1969.
29. U.S. Energy Information Administration; Foreign Electricity Emission Factors, 1999-2002, http://www.eia.doe.gov, 2007.