Distillation ChemCAD

CHBE 446
February 13, 2015

Group: 8
Cesar Castro
Jacky Tsai
Dung Phan
Vivi He
 Outline/Agenda
Types of Distillation Columns in ChemCAD
Steps for doing distillation in ChemCAD
1 set up workspace
2 choose component
3 thermodynamic setting
4 feed stream data
5 distillation column data
6 RUN and report streams
Plots
 Types of Distillation Column in
ChemCAD
There are three rigorous steady state distillation models in
CHEMCAD:
scds (simultaneous correction distillation)
tower (Inside-out method)
tower+ (tower unit with additional in/out connections).
The shor column is not a rigorous column. The shor
column uses the Fenske-Underwood-Giliand model to
calculate separations.
There is also one Batch column
 Which to choose?
scds column: activity coefficient K values
tower column: equations of state.
tower+ column: petroleum models.
shor column: generally used only in
education, and should not be used to
model an actual column.
Recommendations
Step one: set up in
Workspace

This area is your

Workspace
 Step two: choose
components

3
2
Step two cont.
Step two cont.
Step three: Thermodynamic setting

http://www.chemstations.com/c
ontent/documents/Technical_Ar
ticles/thermo.pdf

This website (also listed in

Design course webpage)
explains
thermodynamic models in
detail
Thermodynamic Model
Step four: feed stream data
3

2 Choose two to
enter
Data shown
after Flash

1
Step five: distillation column
data
Step five cont.
Step six: RUN and report

You can get your stream

composition and
properties reports
afterwards
Example: stream composition report
Plots
Example: Txy-plot
Example: xy-plot
 Reference
http://home.anadolu.edu.tr/~skaytak
o/web_malzemeleri/DISTILLATION
%20CONVERGENCE.pdf