Sc. Kim et al., MODELING OF ETHANOL DEHYDRATION BY DIFFUSION DISTILLATION IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SENSIBLE HEAT-TRANSFER, The Korean journal of chemical engineering, 13(3), 1996, pp. 275-281
The diffusion distillation is the evaporation and diffusion process be
low the boiling temperature of the mixture in a gap filled with the in
ert gas. It can separate the azeotropic mixture of ethanol and water.
The mass transfer in a differential single column can be described by
the Maxwell-Stefan equations. Differential mass balances which can ext
end a column model from a differential single column to an integral co
lumn and heat balances were suggested. The new model considers the sen
sible heat transfers and develops algorithm which enables to calculate
interfacial temperature more precisely at condensing liquid film and
include one more iterative loop. The results are compared with the exp
erimental data and other models.