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0. 65 0. 45

31. 066 9% 34. 167 5%

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Simulation of Separating Benzene / Toluene / Xylene with

Dividing Wall Column

HE Xi-tao 1 GAN Ai-hua 12 CHEN Ning 1 2

1. School of Chemical Engineering and TechnologyTianjin UniversityTianjin 300072 China
2. National Engineering Research Center for Distillation TechnologyTianjin UniversityTianjin 300072 China

Abstract Dividing wall column has a lot of advantages and potential in energy saving and investment sav-
ingthere are more and more researches on dividing wall column in recent years. With equal proportion
of benzenetoluene and xylene as raw materials and process simulationthe relationships between feed
stagewall positionreflux ratioside-draw position split ratios of liquid and vaporand energy consump-
tioncomponentspurity were analyzed. Results show thatthe best liquid split ratio and the best vapor
split ratio are 0. 65 and 0. 45 respectively. Compared with conventional distillation towersbenzenetolu-
ene and xylene obtained from dividing wall column are more purerand the condenser duty and reboiler
duty of dividing wall column are reduced by 31. 066 9% and 34. 167 5% respectively.

Key words dividing wall column conventional distillation tower completely thermal coupling distil-
lation split ratios of liquid and vapor

DWC Dividing Wall Column DWC

1 20 30 Luster
DWC 1 Glinos 2-6
1

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1985
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zene Toluene Xylene

ChemCAD BTX

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1
Table 1 Paraments of feed and requirements of separation

Benzene 453. 6 X Benzene 99. 99%
/
Toluene 453. 6
kgh 1 X Toluene 99. 9%
Xylene 453. 6
/ 37. 8
0. 1%
/ kPa 137. 931 X Bottom-Toluene

1 DWC
Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of dividing wall column 1

30% 1 prefrac-
1 tionator 1 main column 13
50% 60%
BASF 2 Fenske-Under-
wood-Gilliland 30
3 DWC
BASF 1 DWC 15 55 30

10 Becker Schultz 2001

2002 DWC SRKM

7 -8
2008 2

80 70 BASF

9
2004 Uhde

Mor-

phylane 2

1 2004 Ls

Gelsenkirchen Aral

30 000t / d 99. 9% 2

25% 20% Vs

=


10
=
11

DWC Halvorsen 3

DWC =

DWC 2
=
liquid and vapor split rati-
os 2 DWC
=


=
12
Ben-
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K ij = K aij + K bij / T + K cij / T 2 8

2
K ji = K aji + K bji / T + K cji / T 9

3
BTX


3. 1

3

18 38
23 30
23 30



28
3. 2
2
Fig. 2 Diveded wall column model
4
4 24 30
24
2 30 30
34


Panagiotopolous Reid

SRK SRKM 4
B T X = 7. 544 3. 680 1. 000
SRKM SRK

RT a T
P = 1
V b V V + b
2 2
a T = 0. 427 48R T C / p C T 2 34
b = 0. 086 64RT C / p C 3
13
SRKM
C 3 C 2 1
T = T r expC 1 1 T r 4 3. 3
T r C 1 C 2 C 3 5
5
SRKM

am = x i x j a ij 5
bm = x b i i 6 3. 5

[ ( x x+ x ) ]
C ij

a ij = a i a j 0. 5 1 K ij + K ji K ij i

i j
7 3
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4. 5


3. 508 2
3. 4

2

2
2
2
2


6

6c 6d 6e 6f

0. 65 0. 90 0. 40 0. 45
3 X B 99. 99% X T
99. 90% X X 99. 90% X B
99. 99% X T 99. 90% X X 99. 90% X Bottom-T
0. 10%

6a
6b 0. 65
0. 45 212. 7 Mcal / h
1 cal = 4. 18 J


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3
Fig. 3 Effect of different feed stages on energy

consumption and separation
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Fig. 5 Effect of different reflux ratio on separation

4
2

B T X = 7. 544
3. 680 1. 000
4 7 3
Fig. 4 Effect of different side-draw stage on energy SRKM
consumption and separation
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Fig. 6 Effect of split ratios

BTX 2
5

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