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Publication history: Received September 5, 2011
Accepted November 10, 2011

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Approximate design and cost evaluation of internally heat-integrated distillation columns (HIDiCs)

Young Han Kim^†

Department of Chemical Engineering, Dong-A University, 840, Hadan-dong, Saha-gu, Busan 604-714, Korea

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, August 2012, 29(8), 1004-1009(6), 10.1007/s11814-011-0288-x

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Abstract

Commercial design programs do not provide a ready-to-use process simulation of tray-by-tray heat-integrated distillation columns, so the computation of the columns using the programs is difficult due to their convergence problem. An approximate procedure for the design of the internally heat-integrated distillation column (HIDiC) is proposed here, and its performance of the design and cost evaluation is demonstrated with two example processes. The approximate design procedure eliminates the artificial heat exchangers and in-tray streams required in the design with the commercial programs, and therefore no information of the exchangers and streams is necessary except the amount of the in-tray heat transfer rate. The economic evaluation indicates that a reduction of the total annual cost of 8.1% is possible with benzene-toluene process and that 59.3% is yielded with the propylene-propane process. The results also_x000D_ demonstrate that the HIDiC is especially efficient for the tight separation system.

Keywords

Internally Heat-integrated Distillation Energy-efficient Distillation Approximate Design Cost Evaluation

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