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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.8.3764

Simulation and Optimization Study on the Pressure Swing Distillation of Methyl ethyl ketone-Water System  

Noh, Sang-Gyun (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Dong Yang University)
Rho, Jae-Hyun (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kong Ju National University)
Cho, Jung-Ho (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kong Ju National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.8, 2012 , pp. 3764-3773 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, modeling and optimization works were completed for the separation of 99.9 mol% of methyl ethyl ketone from water through a pressure-swing distillation process since the azeotropic composition varies very sensitively with the change of system pressure. PRO/II with PROVISION release 9.1 was used for the computer simulation and Wilson activity coefficient model was chosen as a modeling equation. A pressure-swing distillation process can be classified into a low-high pressure columns configuration and a high-low pressure columns configuration. In this work, each configurations were optimized for the minimization of steam consumptions, respectively and were compared.
Keywords
Pressure-swing distillation; Azeotrope; Methyl ethyl ketone; Simulation; Optimization; Wilson model;
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