Extractive Distillation using Aspen Plus 2/4

Review of the ethanol-water distillation using glycerol as entrainer. The columns are specified first as equilibrium blocks, then as rate-based ones. Finally, the energetic analysis is performed. REFERENCES: Aspen Tech, Inc.; Bates, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 1936; Black & al., Extractive and Azeotropic Distillation, 1972; Chen & al., J. of Chem. and Eng. Data, 1970; Coelho & al., J. Chem. Thermodynamics, 2011; Souza & al., Braz. J. of Chem. Engineering, 2016; Gil & al., Computers and Chem. Eng., 2012; Gil & al., Braz. J. of Chem. Engineering, 2014; Kemp. I., "Pinch Analysis and Process Integration"; Seon-Gyun & al., J. of Koerean Ind. & Eng. Chem., 1997; Takamura & al., J. of Petroleum Sc. and Eng., 2012; Zhang & al., J. of Chem. and Eng. Data, 2015. DISCLAIMER: these workshops are organized freely and held for free, they are not part of a regular course.