The simple distillation of homogeneous reactive mixtures

✍ Scribed by Domingos Barbosa; Michael F. Doherty

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 952 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(88)87015-5

✦ Synopsis

The equations describing the simple distillation of homogeneous reactive mixtures are derived, and residue curve maps are computed for ideal and non-ideal systems.

These maps show that, by allowing the components of a liquid mixture to react, we can either create or eliminate distillation boundaries. It is also shown that not all non-reactive azeotropes appear as products of the distiliation process. Knowledge of these features is fundamental for the design and synthesis of sequences of reactive distillation columns.