Question: In a production process, reactor exit flow is a mixture of methyl ethyl keton ( MEK ) , secbutanol and n - butanol. The mixture
In a production process, reactor exit flow is a mixture of methyl ethyl keton MEK secbutanol and nbutanol. The mixture has MEK, secbutanol, and butanol: The secbutanol is wanted to produce with purity. Therefore, exit flow of reactor is cooled and sent to the seperation units. The exit flow rate of the reactor is kmo and it is at and The feed is sent to the distillation column as a vaporliquid mixture The distillate flowrate is kmo and all methyl ethyl keton MEK is obtained from top of the column in distillate stream. Also, secbutanol mole fraction is in the bottom product stream. Reflux ratio is given as for this column. Hint: MEK concentration in the feed stream is quite low. Hence, the feed stream can be accepted as binary mixture. Determine the related parameters of colums that are:
a at given conditions
i Molar flowrates of enriching and stripping sections in the colum with McCabe Thiele method,
ii Top and bottom temperature of column
iii. Calculate the heat loads of total conders and partial reboiler in
iv Number of theoretical stages number of trays
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