(118e) An Engineering Approach to the Synthesis of Integrated Distillation Schemes Where There

An Engineering Approach to the Synthesis
of Integrated Distillation Schemes where there

are a
Significant Number of Options

D. Jantes Jaramillo, G.T. Polley

Dept. of Chemical
Engineering,
University of Guanajuato, Mexico

In a previous paper (Jantes Jaramillo
et al, 2012) we examined a how a multi-component mixture that had difficult
separation tasks could be separated into its component parts. It was argued
with mixtures having difficult separations capital cost considerations
dominate. Consequently, the way in which such separations should be conducted
needed to be identified first. This then led to a significant reduction in the
number of viable schemes and identification of the better options was
simplified.

In this paper attention is directed at systems that cannot
be simplified in this manner and where a large number of options are available.

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