2006 AIChE Annual Meeting
(372a) Modeling and Process Design of an Internally Heat-Integrated Distillation Column
Authors
Keigo Matsuda - Presenter, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Koichi Iwakabe, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Masaru Nakaiwa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Toshinari Nakanishi, Kimura Chemical Plants Co. Ltd.
Takao Ohmori, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Akira Endo, Research Institute for Innovation in Sustainable Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AI
Takuji Yamamoto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Sho Kataoka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
The proposed of the present work is to develop a modeling and process design of the HIDiC. The model of HIDiC with structured packing is developed by rate-based model using Maxwell-Stefan equations. In this study, we have developed the HIDiC models by the process simulator gPROMS. Comparison of observed data from bench-scale (benzene-toluene system) separation concentric HIDiC plant, in which consisted of about 20 m in height and 254 mm in diameter. Predicted simulation results show a good agreement with observed data. The bench HIDiC showed about 40 % reduction of energy consumption than the conventional distillation column. The effect of process design in the HIDiC is also discussed.