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Characteristics of Separations
1. Separation processes require a major fraction of the
capital and operating cost of many chemical plants.
2. The majority of the design variables or degrees of
freedom are involved with the separation processes.
3. The effectiveness of the separations often control
profitability in:
Onion Diagram
Why reactors
first?
Why
separations
before HEX?
Source: Foo et al.
Chemical Engineering
Progress October 2005
See p. 653 of
textbook