FRACTIONATING DISTILLATION

COLUMN

ANA VILA FERREIRO

Project Num: 12
1. INITIAL DATA

F xAF (kmol/h) xAD xAW

2,2 0,19 0,95 0,01

𝒙𝑨𝑭 − 𝒙𝑨𝑾
𝑫=𝑭·
𝒙𝑨𝑫 − 𝒙𝑨𝑾

𝑾=𝑭−𝑫

D 0,4212766 (kmol/h)
W 1,7787234 (kmol/h)

2. EQUILIBRIUM LINES
𝒚𝒂 𝒙𝒂 𝟎,𝟖𝟏
( ) = 𝟑, 𝟓𝟓 ∗ ( )
𝟏 − 𝒚𝒂 𝟏 − 𝒙𝒂

xa ya/(1-ya) ya
0 0,000 0,0000
0,05 0,327 0,2464
0,1 0,599 0,3745
0,15 0,871 0,4655
0,2 1,155 0,5360
0,25 1,458 0,5932
0,3 1,787 0,6412
0,35 2,150 0,6826
0,4 2,556 0,7188
0,45 3,017 0,7511
0,5 3,550 0,7802
0,55 4,177 0,8068
0,6 4,930 0,8314
0,65 5,861 0,8543
0,7 7,052 0,8758
0,75 8,644 0,8963
0,8 10,912 0,9160
0,85 14,469 0,9354
0,9 21,046 0,9546
0,95 38,550 0,9747
1 1
 1

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6
ya

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1
xa

3. OPERATION LINES

𝜓 ∶ reflux ratio

𝑥𝑎𝑑 − 𝑦(𝑥𝑎𝑓)
𝜓 𝑚𝑖𝑛 =
𝑦(𝑥𝑎𝑓) − 𝑥𝑎𝑓

𝜓 = 0,2 · (𝜓 𝑚𝑖𝑛 + 1) + 𝜓 𝑚𝑖𝑛

Bottom reflux ratio:

𝐹 𝐷
𝜓𝑑 = +𝜓·
𝑊 𝑊

Upper and lower operation lines:

𝜓 1
𝑦𝑔 (𝑥) = ·𝑥+ ·𝑥
𝜓+1 𝜓 + 1 𝑎𝑑

𝜓𝑑 1
𝑦𝑑 (𝑥) = ·𝑥+ ·𝑥
𝜓𝑑 − 1 𝜓𝑑 − 1 𝑎𝑤

if xaf=0,19  Interpolating y(xaf)=0,5435

ψ min ψ ψd
1,1499 1,5799 1,611032532
 Yg (x) Yd (x)
0,612·x + 0,368 2,637·x + 0,0164

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6
ya

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1
xa

Number of graphical steps: 14

4. VOLATILITY

𝑦𝑎 · 𝑥𝑏
𝛼=
𝑦𝑏 · 𝑥𝑎

xAD xAW
0,95 0,01
yAD yAW
0,98 0,21

𝑦𝑎 · 𝑥𝑏
𝛼1 =
𝑦𝑏 · 𝑥𝑎

α1 2,579
α2 6,319
αs log mean 4,037

5. FENSKE EQUATION

1 − 𝑥𝑎𝑤
𝑙𝑜𝑔 [𝑥𝑎𝑑 · ]
𝑥𝑎𝑤 · (1 − 𝑥𝑎𝑑)
𝑁𝑚𝑖𝑛 =
log αs
 𝑁𝑚𝑖𝑛 = 3,256

6. MINIMUN NUMBER OF PLATES

𝑁 = 𝑁𝑚𝑖𝑛 + 1 = 4,256

N= 5 plates