Flash Distillation Cascade for an Ethyl Acetate-Ethanol Mixture
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A binary mixture, composed of ethyl acetate and ethanol, is fed to a flash distillation cascade. The mixture presents a positive azeotrope with 0.54 mole fraction ethyl acetate at a boiling point of 72.4°C. Vapor-liquid equilibrium data for the simulations are generated using a modified Raoult's law with activity coefficients predicted by the van Laar model. The user specifies the feed mixture composition as mole % ethyl acetate (labeled EA in the data tables).
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Contributed by: Housam Binous and Ahmed Bellagi (March 2011)
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