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MATERIAL BALANCE
This chapter includes material balance of reactor flash vessels and distillation column also
gives the final product purity and flowrate.
By analysis of the import data in Chemical Weekly (June 2015, volume 29) we can
assume the plant capacity as 50,000 tons per annum. Taking 340 working day of the
plant for 3 shift of 8 hours
50000×1000
plant capacity= kg/hr
340×24
=6127.4 kg/hr
Product Diethyl Ether purity is 99.5% rest is water and ethanol, for convert mass flow rate
into molar flow rate finding out average molecular weight of product
= 73.9293 kg/kmol
6127.4
product molar flow rate = kmol/hr
73.9293
=82.88 kmol/hr.
REACTOR (1)
For reaction 1
\ 1 kmol diethyl ether (DEE) @ 2 kmol C2H5OH
@ 1 kmol H2O
For reaction 2
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Conversion = 52.5% [7]
Yield of diethyl ether (DEE) = 96.19% [7]
Feed = 0.13818 kmol/sec
Ethanol = 0.12533 kmol/sec
Water = 0.01285 kmol/sec
For the reactor feed and product molar flowrate is given in table 3.1.
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FLASH VESSEL (5)
For the flash vessel feed, top and bottom molar flowrate is given in table 3.2.
Table 3.2: flowrate of inlet and outlet stream for flash vessel
Top Bottom
in kmol/sec Feed product product
Ethanol 0.05943 0.00003 0.05940
Water 0.04449 0.00009 0.04440
Diethyl Ether 0.03164 0.00063 0.03101
Ethylene 0.00238 0.00127 0.00111
Total 0.13794 0.00202 0.13592
F=D+W
XF x F = D x XD + W x XW
In table 3.3 flowrate of distillate, residue (bottom) and feed is given for all compound
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Table 3.3: molar flowrate of inlet and outlet streams for distillation column (3)
Top Bottom
in kmol/sec Feed product product
Ethanol 0.05940 0.00000 0.05940
Water 0.04440 0.00000 0.04440
Diethyl Ether 0.03032 0.03018 0.00014
Ethylene 0.00111 0.00111 0.00000
Total 0.13183 0.03153 0.10430
XF x F = D x XD + W x XW
In table 3.4 flowrate of distillate, residue (bottom) and feed is given for all compound
Table 3.4: molar flowrate of inlet and outlet streams for distillation column (4)
Top Bottom
in kmol/sec Feed product product
Ethanol 0.05940 0.05753 0.00187
Water 0.04440 0.00915 0.03525
Diethyl Ether 0.00014 0.00014 0.00000
Ethylene 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
Total 0.10430 0.067 0.03730
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FLASH VESSEL: (7)
For the flash vessel feed, top and bottom molar flowrate is given in table 3.5.
Table 3.5: flowrate of inlet and outlet stream for flash vessel
Bottom Top
in kmol/sec Feed Product Product
Ethanol 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
Water 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
Diethyl Ether 0.03018 0.02336 0.00582
Ethylene 0.00111 0.00006 0.00105
Total 0.03153 0.02342 0.00870
= 687985.92 kmol/year
= 50910.95 TPA
= 99.74 %
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