Lab 11: Computer simulations for 3 0,016694 0,029420 0,953885

absorption and stripping 4 0,018892 0,027235 0,953873

5 0,021569 0,024207 0,954536
1.A) 6 0,024744 0,019869 0,955386
Stage Acetone Water Air Table 3: Molar fraction (gas phase) in the stages
1 0,002216 0,026332 0,97145 At this point, the flow of feed water was
2 0,005165 0,029425 0,96511 decreased to 100 kgmole/h. As seen in Table
3 0,008453 0,031646 0,9599 3, the acetone concentration at the outlet
4 0,011816 0,032354 0,95582 increases, although not theoretically should
5 0,015462 0,03083 0,95370 meet the indicated concentration of acetone,
6 0,020541 0,025655 0,95380 reducing the water feed flow causes little
Table 1: Molar fraction (gas phase) in the stages amount entering, leaving more
Stage Temperature(°C) Pressure(bar) concentrated. Fewer but more performance.
1 22,1842 1,01325
2 24,0465 1,01325 1.C)
3 25,2916 1,01325 Stage Acetone Water Air
4 25,6943 1,01325 1 0,0074963 0,030501 0,962002
5 25,7498 1,01325 2 0,0118408 0,033042 0,955117
6 25,9984 1,01325 3 0,0139418 0,033314 0,952744
Table 2: Temperature and pressure in the column 4 0,0150736 0,032773 0,952153
The outflow of the two currents does not 5 0,0158478 0,031941 0,952211
present a considerably high variation, as in 6 0,0165201 0,030968 0,952511
the case of the liquid stream decreases by 7 0,0172099 0,029889 0,952901
0.099% from the liquid feed stream (200 8 0,0179939 0,028675 0,953331
kgmole / h). While, in the case of steam 9 0,0189542 0,027255 0,953791
output decreases its flow 2.07% compared to 10 0,0202221 0,025076 0,954291
the initial feed (100 kgmole / h). 11 0,0220659 0,023489 0,954858
The equipment meets the specification of
12 0,0251684 0,019366 0,955465
acetone, however, a large amount of Table 4: Molar fraction (gas phase) in the stages
acetone initially fed in the air is not obtained, For this section, the number of stages (12 in
so increasing the temperature is one of the total), mole fraction of acetone in the gas
possible options to extract acetone air, outflow decreased compared to the column
however, the temperature rise is a risk of with the same flow but with only six stages
increased water fraction exiting the gas was increased within this. But this decline
stream. cannot be considered important as it is
To increase the value of the mole fraction of minimal, therefore not be significant
acetone in the liquid, should increase the assembling a team with 12 stages, as it will
temperature at which the equipment be much costlier and performance would not
operates, this reaches a maximum have a significant difference with the
temperature of 25.7°C (step 6) which is previously proposed system.
feeding the steam, although the temperature
variation is minimal, since the lowest value of 1.D)
the temperature is 22°C. Stage Acetone Water Air
1 0,0044198 0,017437 0,978143
1.B)
2 0,0088369 0,020646 0,970516
Stage Acetone Water Air
3 0,0120541 0,021616 0,966329
1 0,008574 0,029330 0,962095
4 0,0145023 0,020927 0,96457
2 0,013752 0,030543 0,995570
 5 0,0170663 0,018792 0,964414
6 0,0211767 0,014605 0,964218
Table 5: Molar fraction (gas phase) in the stages
For this approach, we return to the same
point designed 1.C), with the difference that
the temperature of the feed water decreases
to 10°C, wherein the mole fraction of
acetone in the vapor decreases considerably,
while the amount of water in the air
decreased minimally, the liquid stream has a
minimum change in concentration can be
considered negligible.
steam (100 ° C), the system gives very
different values to what should approach, as
this system is not designed to operate with
power a saturated vapor, without which, the
composition of the feed stream that comes
from the absorber, also has an impact on the
system cannot run.
2.C) The feed stream should be handled
when a saturated steam is handled to satisfy
the specification on the outlet liquid
composition It is close to 14.5 kgmol/h.

1.E) In this section, it is handled in the same
way as above, with the difference that the
pressure is increased to 2 atm. throughout
the system. The variation values of the mole
fractions of output flows virtually unchanged
compared the previous section even though
the pressure in the system is doubled, this
means that the variation of the molar
fractions may depend more on some specific
factors, such as temperature, feed flow and
the number of steps of the absorption
column.
2.D) By decreasing the pressure in the
system, it will affect the decrease in the
concentration of acetone in the gas stream,
and there will be less interaction in the
system so that the two streams (liquid and
vapor) have contact with each other,
although the pressure is a variable which
depends on the concentration smaller value
compared to other variables such as the
temperature.

2.A)
Stage Acetone Water Air
1 0,002216 0,026332 0,97145
2 0,005165 0,029425 0,96540
3 0,008453 0,031646 0,9599
4 0,011816 0,032354 0,95582
5 0,015462 0,03083 0,95370
6 0,020541 0,025655 0,95380
Table 6: Molar fraction (gas phase) in the stages
Superheated steam is at 105°C at a rate of
20kgmole / h, with a molar fraction of
acetone in the gas outlet 0.00216, this is
really low in comparison developed above,
which means that when using the
entrainment separator after the absorber
has a better separation and removal of the
acetone is in the gaseous medium, this
system satisfies the specifications proposed
previously.

2.B) With the same power values in the

previous point, but with a feeding saturated
References:
Wankat, P. (2012). Separation process engineering, Third edition; Chapter 12: Absorption and
striping. United States: Prentice Hall.