Problem: Material Balances in the Production of Vinyl Chloride

Ref: G.B. DeLancey, Process Analysis - An Electronic Version

Chemical Engineering Education , Winter, 40-45, (1999)
Solved by:
Spreadsheets in Chemical Engineering Education – a tool in process design and process integration
Eugénio C. Ferreira, R. Lima and R. Salcedo (Int. J. Engineering Education , 20:6, 928-938, 2004)

F2= 0.50 Link

Chlorination
reactor

Cl2 F6= 0.56 F12= 1.40 F11= 0.20

F4= 0.56 C2H4Cl2
inerts F10= 1.60 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1trkeFwfwE-du_fGuuHwTDBKRzPQeVleN/view

F1= 1.00
Pyrolysis

Separator
reactor
C2H4 F8= 3.60 F9= 1.20
inerts C2H3Cl Excelent File
Oxyhydrochlorination

H2O
F5= 0.44
reactor

F3= 0.20
O2 F7= 0.84 https://sites.google.com/view/processdesignandsimulation/home

HCl F13= 0.80

Project data values

F1 x8,10 x1,1
1.0000 0.5 0.9

Decision variables
F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10
0.5000 0.2000 0.5556 0.4444 0.5556 0.8444 3.6000 1.2000 1.6000
F11 F12 F13 x3,8 x5,8 x6,8 x7,8 x8,8 x5,6
0.2000 1.4000 0.8000 0.2222 0.2222 0.2222 0.1111 0.2222 0.9000
x8,6 x5,7 x7,7 x8,7 x6,9 x7,9 x5,12
0.1000 0.4737 0.4737 0.0526 0.6667 0.3333 0.5000

Mass Balances Equality Constraints

Eq. # "=0" Eq. # "=0"
1 0.0000 14 0.0000
2 0.0000 15 0.0000
3 0.0000 16 0.0000
4 0.0000 17 0.0000
5 0.0000 18 0.0000
6 0.0000 19 0.0000
7 0.0000 20 0.0000
8 0.0000 21 0.0000
9 0.0000 22 0.0000
10 0.0000 23 0.0000
11 0.0000 24 0.0000
12 0.0000 25 0.0000
13 0.0000