Separation of a Reactive Ternary Mixture with a Distillation Column
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Consider a ternary mixture of components , , and with relative volatilities and . This mixture is subject to an equilibrium-limited chemical reaction with reaction rate , where the equilibrium constant . This mixture is fed to a reactive distillation column such that the total number of plates is equal to 14, the feed stage location is stage number 5, the reactive stages are from stage 2 to stage 7, and the feed composition is equimolar in and (i.e., the feed is composed of 40% mole , 40% mole , and 20% mole ). The feed flow rate is chosen equal to 100 kmol/hr. For simplicity, the constant molal overflow (CMO) assumption is made and heat effects are neglected.
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Contributed by: Housam Binous, Manel Selmi, Ines Wada, and Ahmed Bellagi (March 2011)
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M. F. Doherty and M. F. Malone, Conceptual Design of Distillation Systems, New York: McGraw–Hill, 2001.
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