Startup of Homogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Sequences with Multiple Steady States

Autor: and Néstor H. Rodríguez, Sonia J. Benz, Nicolás J. Scenna, Juan Ignacio Klaric
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 44:9208-9220
ISSN: 1520-5045
0888-5885
DOI: 10.1021/ie050004i
Popis: The operability of an azeotropic sequence, which consists of an azeotropic distillation column with multiple steady states and an entrainer recovery column with the corresponding recycle stream, is analyzed by dynamic simulation during its startup. The goal is to study the effect of the recycle stream on the start-up performance. The well-known benzene−heptane−acetone (BHA) system is studied. Given open-loop (manual) start-up strategies, the way in which the system reaches different steady states by applying different start-up configurations and/or policies can be observed through the temperature profile evolutions. These are generated using different initial charges in one or both columns, and by applying different schedules for the evolution of the operative variables. Indeed, a partition of the start-up policy space yielding different solutions is achieved. Therefore, it is possible to identify a set of critical values for the supervision of the startup. Based on these results, very simple closed-loop ...
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