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ChemSep Tutorial: Extraction

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Ross Taylor and Harry Kooijman
Here we consider the modeling of an extraction column using ChemSep. This tutorial is derived
from Exercise 10,43 in Separation Process Principles (2^d Edition) by J.D. Seader and E.J. Henley
(Wiley,2006).
Tutorial 1: Setting up a Simple Extractor
Ethyl Acetate is to be used as the solvent in an extraction process to recover acetic acid from a
blnary liquid mixture that is predominantly water. The exercise calls for us to determine the number
of equilibrium stages needed to recover 99.5% of the acetic acid in the feed. ln Exercise 10.43
Seader and Henley refer back to Figure 8.1 (on page 296) where a flowsheet for the entire
extraction process is shown (with considerable accompanying discussion). The component flow
rates into and from the extraction column to be used in this example are taken from Figure 8.1 and
summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Extractor Stream Flows: Feed Specifications and Products
Stream
Stage
Pressure (psia)
Light phase fraction
Temperature (oF)
Mass Flows (lb/h)
EthylAcetate
Water
Acetic Acid
Feed Solvent Etract Raffinate
1
15
0
100
23,600
6,660
10
15
1
100
68,600
2,500
1 921
1252
1
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1
100
67,112
6,660
6,649
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We begin by clicking on the Cornponents Panel and selecting the components that are listed in
Table 1 (the components should be selected in the order in which they appear in Table 1).
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and and the interaction parameters are shown in the screen shot below:
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that is the unit used most often for reporting liquidJiquid parameters. When we solve this problem we will find that this choice was
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an incorrect choice would lead to ridiculous answers or no solution at all.
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The ext step is to provide the details of the two feeds. Click on the Feeds line and complete the
feeds panel
so that it appears as it does in the screen shot below:
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It is important to note that we have entered the feeds in mass units (because the problem
specification by Seader and Henley provided the stream data in mass units). Note also that the
default names of the feed streams have been changed.
For liquid-liquid systems we must choose the light phase fraction (rather than the vapor fraetion
that could be specified for gas/vapor-liquid
systems). The feed to the top of the column (stage 1)
musf have a light phase fraction of zero (in order to force it to flow down the column) and the feed
to the boom of the column must have a light phase of one (in order to force it to flow up the
column).
The column pressure is set to 15 psia:
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The column specifications are completed by setting the heat losses to zero and the default
efficienry to one. There are no Column Spefications as such, we do however, rename the lop and
Bottom product streams as Extract and Raffinafe respectively.
Prior to solving the problem it is wise to check the Solve Options panel, the upper part of which
should look like this:
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note that the file name will appear on the
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Click on the green arrow head icon to start the calculations. This will bring up the solve window:
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lf we compare the mass flows shown here with those in Table 1 we will see that we have
recovered more than the 99.5% of the ac;tic acid
present in the Feed stream. WeFffilb'as an
exercise for readers to determine how many stages are, in fact, necessary to recovef 98.5%.
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