SEPARATION OF ACETONA-CHLOROPHORM MAXIMUM BOULATING AZEOTROPE USING METHYL SULPHOXIDE THROUGH PROSIMPLUS SIMULATOR

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.76920300119

• Palavras-chave: Atena

• Keywords: Azeotrope, Simulation, Extractive Distillation and Methyl Sulfoxide.

• Abstract:

  The industry has been undergoing

  major technological advances in the field of

  separation engineering, but still distillation

  continues to stand out, mainly because it can

  separate real mixtures on a large scale, but

  some of these combinations have the same

  composition as the liquid phase. at the boiling

  point, and is identical to that of equilibrium

  steam so they cannot be separated by

  conventional distillation, these combinations

  are called azeotropic mixtures. The objective

  of this paper is to simulate the methyl sulfoxide

  solvent for separation of the maximum boiling

  point azeotropic mixture between acetone and

  chloroform, which is very difficult to separate,

  using the ProSim Plus simulator with the aid

  of the NRTL thermodynamic model. provide

  real data and graphs of component behavior

  in relation to separation. To achieve a good

  separation, it was necessary to use two

  distillation columns where the first iris breaks

  the azeotrope and the safe separates solvent

  with the component that has the most affinity.

  Through the simulation it was possible to realize

  that the solvent was very effective in separating

  the azeotrope, where found in the top stream of

  the first column more than 92% acetone. From

  the data obtained, it can be concluded that the

  solvent is very effective for this separation and

  very promising for future studies. 

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