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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 26, Issue 10, Pages 2023-2033Publisher
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2018.02.002
Keywords
Continuous homogenous azeotropic distillation; Pressure-swing distillation; Ethyl acetate/n-hexane; Azeotrope
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- Education Foundation of Chongqing [KJ1712307]
- Application Technology Research and Developments Foundation of Fuling Technology Board (FLKJ) [2016ABA1026]
- Young Foundation of Yangtze Normal University [2015XJXM03]
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Continuous homogenous azeotropic distillation (CHAD) and pressure-swing distillation (PSD) are explored to separate a minimum-boiling azeotropic system of ethyl acetate and n-hexane. The CHAD process with acetone as the entrainer and the PSD process with the pressures of 0.1 MPa and 0.6 MPa in two columns are designed and simulated by Aspen Plus. The operating conditions of the two processes are optimized via a sequential modular approach to obtain the minimum total annual cost (TAC). The computational results show that the partially heat integrated pressure-swing distillation (HIPSD) has reduced in the energy cost and TAC by 40.79% and 35.94%, respectively, than the conventional PSD, and has more greatly reduced the energy cost and TAC by 62.61% and 4926% respectively compared with the CHAD process. The comparison of CHAD process and partially HIPSD process illustrates that the partially HIPSD has more advantages in averting the product pollution, energy saving, and economy. (C) 2017 The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, and Chemical Industry Press. All rights reserved.
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