Simulation of reactive distillation column for the production of dimethyl carbonate – effect of reflux ratio, feed location and reaction rate
| dc.contributor.author | Mohamad Hidayat Bin Ruhaidi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-10T02:31:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-10T02:31:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Reactive distillation is efficient technologies that can reduce energy, cost and improvement purity of the product but it is under research. Production DMC from transesterification through single reactive distillation column is lower because dimethyl carbonate and methanol is azeotrope. One of the method to improve purity dimethyl carbonate and conversion by optimisation. Optimisation on the purity DMC and conversion methanol of industrial scale production is difficult to be conduct using experimental base conduct because it consume more time to be done. Aspen Plus V10 is the commercial software that used to simulate and analyse the reactive distillation for production dimethyl carbonate (DMC) system. Beside , it is used to optimize the production of DMC using ‘RadFrac’ model with desired end-product characteristics. Parameters required in Aspen Plus V10 is obtained from literature. The simulation result obtained reasonable with the literature results and acceptable since the different of the DMC purity and methanol conversion around 0.2725% and 0.33997% respectively. However, heat duty shows slightly difference with the error 12.68% at the top and 10.91% at the bottom. In addition, sensitivity analysis conducted shows that the DMC purity and methanol conversion were maximum at reflux ratio 0.522. The best feed location for ethylene carbonate at stage 3 while methanol feed at stage 27. Lastly, the best forward activation energy is 13.06 kJ/mol and reverse activation energy is 3.2 kJ/mol. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11937 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Simulation of reactive distillation column for the production of dimethyl carbonate – effect of reflux ratio, feed location and reaction rate | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
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