Computer-Aided Conceptual Design of Batch Distillation Systems

ESPINOSA, JOSÉ; ENRIQUE SALOMONE,; OSCAR IRIBARREN,

INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMICAL RESEARCH

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Año: 2004 vol. 43 p. 1723 - 1733

0888-5885

During the last decade, several authors worked in the development  of methods to cope with  different steps of the design and synthesis of batch distillation systems. Among these methods,  the conceptual design is based both on the thermodynamic analysis of residue curve maps and on the behavior of composition profiles in batch columns operating at limiting operating conditions,  i.e. infinite number of stages  and total reflux.In this work, we apply the conceptual design approach to design the recovery of 2-propanol from a mixture containing water by using cyclohexane as entrainer. All the computations  were performed  through an integration of these methods in a software tool for conceptual design.