Final project(Disillation problem)

Presented by : Mahmoud Gamal Mohamed Abdel Hakeem 202110765

Given:

3700 kg/hrmixture of tetrahydrofuran& toluene (44 mass% THF) at 10oC and 140 kPais to be separated
by distillation to get each of them with purity of 99.5 mass% of THF & 94 mass% of Toluene (THF is the
more volatile component).

Use Wilson fluid package

 The column specifications are:

The condenser & reboilerpressure are 103 kPa& 107 kPa.
The condenser works on total condensation conditions.
Number of stages = 10.
Feed enters from the 5th tray.

 Calculate:
The reflux ratio and the distillate rate under the specified conditions.

 Optimization Data:
Feed price= 0.05 $/kg.
Pure toluene selling price= 0.136 $/kg
Pure THF selling price= 0.333 $/ kg
Cooling Cost= 0.471 $/ kw.hr
Heating Cost= 0.737 $/kw.hr

Note:
Profit = (Total Toluene selling price + Total THF selling price) -(Feed cost + Heating cost + Cooling Cost)
Use a range of 0.99 to 0.999 for THF limit & 0.9 to 0.99 for the toluene.
Solution:
Before optimization
After optimization