Distillation ChemCAD

CHBE 446
February 13, 2015

Group: 8
Cesar Castro
Jacky Tsai
Dung Phan
Vivi He
 Outline/Agenda
Types of Distillation Columns in ChemCAD
Steps for doing distillation in ChemCAD
1 set up workspace
2 choose component
3 thermodynamic setting
4 feed stream data
5 distillation column data
6 RUN and report streams
Plots
 Types of Distillation Column in
ChemCAD
There are three rigorous steady state distillation models in
CHEMCAD:
scds (simultaneous correction distillation)
tower (Inside-out method)
tower+ (tower unit with additional in/out connections).
The shor column is not a rigorous column. The shor column
uses the Fenske-Underwood-Giliand model to calculate
separations.
There is also one Batch column
 Which to choose?
scds column: activity coefficient K values
tower column: equations of state.
tower+ column: petroleum models.
shor column: generally used only in education,
and should not be used to model an actual
column.
Recommendations
Step one: set up in Workspace

This area is your Workspace

Step two: choose components

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2
Step two cont.
Step two cont.
Step three: Thermodynamic setting

http://www.chemstations.com/conte
nt/documents/Technical_Articles/ther
mo.pdf

This website (also listed in Design

course webpage) explains
thermodynamic models in detail
Thermodynamic Model
Step four: feed stream data
3

2 Choose two to enter

Data shown
after Flash

1
Step five: distillation column data
Step five cont.
Step six: RUN and report

You can get your stream

composition and properties
reports afterwards
Example: stream composition report
Plots
Example: Txy-plot
Example: xy-plot
 Reference
http://home.anadolu.edu.tr/~skaytako/web_
malzemeleri/DISTILLATION%20CONVERGENCE
.pdf