FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING FEASIBLE SCHEMES OF MULTICOMPONENT AZEOTROPICDISTILLATION

Citation
E. Rev et al., FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING FEASIBLE SCHEMES OF MULTICOMPONENT AZEOTROPICDISTILLATION, Computers & chemical engineering, 18, 1994, pp. 190000043-190000047
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Application, Chemistry & Engineering","Engineering, Chemical","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications
ISSN journal
00981354
Volume
18
Year of publication
1994
Supplement
S
Pages
190000043 - 190000047
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-1354(1994)18:<190000043:FFDFSO>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Our ultimate aim is to develop a general methodology for assigning fea sible separation schemes of multicomponent azeotropic distillation A f ramework is presented for creating feasible distillation schemes which is the first part of the design procedure. The proposed methodology i s demonstrated on a four-component mixture with six binary and three t ernary azeotropes. The main difficulty in extending the method is the impossibility of the visualisation of the separating sets and the dist illation region in higher dimensions. The application of the algebraic topology will provide the means for constructing the distillation bou ndary structures in systems of more than four components.