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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND PROCESS ENGINEERING

Group: KK2

Production of Vinyl Acetate

Objective:To study the process of production of vinyl acetate To apply knowledge of physical chemistry, thermodynamics into this project To apply Visio in drawing process flow diagram

Introduction:
Versatile, economically important chemical with a wide variety of industrial and commercial applications. Polymerization of vinyl acetate itself and other chemical compounds can produce variety products.

Reaction:1: C2H4 (g) + C2H4O2 (g) +1/2O2 (g) ->

Physical and Chemical Properties

Physical Chemical
Formula Weight : 86.9 g/mol Physical State : Liquid Boiling Point Odour : sweetish smell in small quantities. Freezing Point : -92.8C Colour : Clear and colourless Standard Heat of Formation : Reactivity : Reactive with -83.5 Kcal/mole self and variety of other chemicals. Stable when Water Solubility : 2.3% properly stored and inhibited : 72.7C

C4H6O2 (l) + H2O (l)

2: C2H4 (g) + 3O2 (g) ->2CO2 (g) + 2H2O (l)

Supply and demand:

Million Tones Supply Demand

Raw material:
1. 2. 3. Acetic acid Catalyst : Palladium Ethylene and gold Oxygen

Process Flow Diagram:

Year

Environment issue & waste management:

Waste Water

Capacity of plant:

: a waste water treatment plant Capacity : 0.5% from world to maintain the pH, COD and production which is about 23500 tons of vinyl acetate in Malaysia BOD. market equivalent to 3263.89 kg hr,. Carbon dioxide : standard techniques such washing with amines or potassium carbonate solutions.

Mass balance and Energy balance:

Mass balance: Fin = Fout 3263.89kg/hr = 3263.89kg/hr Energy balance of reactor : -12190.8279 kJ/hr