Presenter(s)

    Joseph A. Terrano

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    Description

    Distillation is one of the most common processes used to separate liquid mixtures of chemical species with differing boiling points. Simple distillation columns are a single column with two product streams; complex columns may have three or more product streams and smaller side columns. It is difficult to simulate a complex column without a good initial estimate of key parameters such as the number of equilibrium stages and the reflux ratio. The goal of this thesis is to develop a software package that models the minimum reflux ratio, minimum number of stages and the column profiles in complex distillation columns with side-stream columns.

    Publication Date

    4-17-2013

    Project Designation

    Honors Thesis

    Primary Advisor

    Amy R. Ciric

    Primary Advisor's Department

    Chemical and Materials Engineering

    Keywords

    Stander Symposium project

    Modeling Complex Distillation Columns for Ternary Mixtures

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