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Rigorous design and economic optimization of reactive distillation column considering real liquid hold-up and hydraulic conditions of industrial device

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Rigorous design and economic optimization of reactive distillation column considering real liquid hold-up and hydraulic conditions of industrial device
The liquid hold-up in a reactive distillation(RD)column not only has a significant impact on the extent of reactions,but also affects the pressure drop and hydraulic conditions in the column.Therefore,the liquid hold-up would be a critical design factor for RD columns.However,the existing design methods for RD columns typically neglect the influence of considerable amount of liquid hold-up in downcomers owing to the difficulties of solving a large-scale nonlinear model system by considering downcomer hydraulics,resulting in significant deviations from actual situation and even operation infeasibility of the designed column.In this paper,a pseudo-transient(PT)RD model based on equilibrium model considering tray hydraulics was established for rigorous simulation and optimization of RD plate columns considering the liquid hold-up both in downcomers and column trays,and a steady-state optimization algorithm assisted by the PT model was adopted to robustly solve the optimization problem.The optimization results of either ethylene glycol RD or methyl acetate RD demonstrated that assuming all the liquid hold-up of a stage belonged to the tray will cause significant deviations in the column diameter,weir height,and the number of stages,which leads to not meeting the separation requirements and even operation hydraulic infeasibility.The rigorous model proposed in this study which considers the liquid hold-up both on trays and in downcomers as well as hydraulic constraints can be applied to systematically design industrial RD plate columns to simultaneously obtain optimal operating variables and equipment structure variables.

Reactive distillationLiquid hold-upDowncomerTray hydraulicsPseudo-transient modeling method

Yuchang Du、Yiqing Luo、Peilin Yang、Shengkun Jia、Xigang Yuan

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Chemical Engineering Research Center,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300354,China

School of Chemical Engineering and Technology,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300354,China

State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300354,China

Reactive distillation Liquid hold-up Downcomer Tray hydraulics Pseudo-transient modeling method

2024

中国化学工程学报(英文版)
中国化工学会

中国化学工程学报(英文版)

CSTPCDEI
影响因子:0.818
ISSN:1004-9541
年,卷(期):2024.76(12)