Design and control of reactive distillation for ethyl and isopropyl acetates production with azeotropic feeds

Reactive distillations for the production of ethyl acetate (EtAc) and isopropyl acetate (IPAc) are classified as the type-II process where the first column consists of a reactive zone and a rectifying section followed by a stripper [Tang et al., 2005. Design of reactive distillations for acetic acid esterification with different alcohols. A.I.Ch.E. Journal 51, 1683-1699]. Instead of using pure alcohols and acetic acid as reactants, this paper studies the effects of reactant purity on the design and control of reactive distillation. This offers significant economical incentives (by reducing raw materials costs), because ethanol forms an azeotrope with water at 90 mol% and isopropanol/water has an azeotrope at 68%. The purities of the acid is set to 95% for acetic acid (industrial grade), 87% for ethanol, and 65% for isopropanol. The results show that the total annual costs (TAC) increase by a factor of 5% for EtAc and 8% for IPAc production using reactive distillation. Next, the operability of the reactive distillations with azeotrope feeds is explored. Three disturbances, feed flow, acid feed purity, and alcohol feed composition, are introduced to assess control performance using dual-temperature control and one-temperature-one-composition control. Simulation results indicate good control performance can be achieved for reactive distillation with azeotropic feeds.     

应用分子蒸馏技术分离提纯玫瑰精油

应用刮膜式分子蒸馏装置对玫瑰精油的提纯进行了研究。考察了进料速率、进料温度、蒸发温度和刮膜器转速等因素对玫瑰精油分离效果的影响。通过试验,初步得到了工艺参数的范围:进料速率为50~70 mL/h,进料温度为53~60℃,蒸发温度Ⅰ为100~108℃,蒸发温度Ⅱ为120~130℃,操作压力1.5 Pa,刮膜器转速150~160r/m in,得到的玫瑰精油产品的纯度在86%以上,分离过程总收率大于60%,并为今后工艺参数优化奠定了基础。     

轻型高效精馏塔的计算机辅助设计

论述了在Win9x操作环境下，用Visual Baisc 6.0可视化语言设计界面，用Microsoft Access建立数据库，用Auto CAD VBA编辑绘图程序，以Auto CAD作为平台，开发设计轻型高效精馏塔辅助设计软件。通过对实际设计结果的检验与试用，该软件具有良好的用户界面、人机对活功能和图形功能，使用简单方便，输入初始条件即可设计并绘制出塔结构图。     

含氮天然气液化脱氮精馏塔液位控制模型和仿真

提出了用精馏塔对含氮天然气脱除N2生产液化天然气（LNG）,精馏塔塔釜液位的一种控制方法。该方法以脱氮分离效率和稳定的产品（LNG）出料温度为控制目标,建立了塔釜液位控制模型并仿真。整个闭环控制模型包括被控对象传递函数,调节阀传递函数,PID控制传递函数和检测传递函数。其中调节阀传递函数的建立,采用先计算阀位-Cv值（流量系数）曲线;然后通过系统辨识法[1]求得数学模型;最后利用泰勒级数把非线性化转化为线性化并求得传递函数。通过Matlab软件[2]的仿真,在阶跃干扰下,得到了合适的液位变化曲线和合适的阀位变化[3]。     

异丙醇一步法生产甲基异丁基酮分离过程的研究

本文对异丙醇一步法合成MIBK工艺的分离过程进行了基础测定，包括气液平衡和液液平衡测定。在此基础上。对原有的MIBK分离工艺进行了研究，提出了改进的工艺流程，使MIBK的回收率由32％提高到91．7％．能耗由11,42t水蒸汽／t产品降为8．27t水蒸汽／t产品。     

A method for the design of flexible distillation sequence

A simple method has been developed to optimally design a distillation sequence with a fixed degree of flexibility in feed composition and flowrate, and accounts for uncertainty in stage efficiency, K-value and beat transfer coefficient calculations. The method minimizes a weighted cost function and ensures both optimal and feasible operation in the range of flexibility/uncertainty by using an approach termed “practical feasibility”. The method was tested on a 4 column distillation sequence separating a 5 component light alkane feed mixture. Results are presented to illustrate the effect of uncertainty on sequence cost and column overdesign.     

伴有平衡反应的分离过程的数学模拟——(Ⅱ)催化精馏塔的模拟计算

提出了平衡反应的非均相催化反应精馏过程的微分数学模型。应用多目标打靶法和 Newtor-Raphson 迭代对模型方程进行了求解。本算法应用于非理想系统,反应动力学未知的快速可逆反应过程。可求得沿塔最大转化率和平衡浓度分布。应用本算法对 MTBE 的催化反应过程进行了模拟计算,能快速稳定收敛。计算结果与文献数据进行比较,表现出良好的一致性。     

非常规汽油脱硫技术

水蒸气脱硫是一种以水代替氢的脱硫方法,降低脱硫成本显著。以酶代替传统加氢催化剂的生物脱硫技术是一个引人注目的课题。结合催化和精馏的催化精馏脱硫法,在选择脱硫的对象上,相对传统的催化脱硫更具优势。萃取脱硫是采用一些极性溶剂混合物脱除汽油馏分中的硫化物,须加入氧化助剂才有较好的脱硫效果,由此将导致大的辅助车间和有限脱硫效率。膜过程脱硫、声化学脱硫、等离子体和光脱硫都属于物理方法,环保意义很大。对于吸附脱硫,从流化催化裂化汽油中除硫完全,而汽油产率降低很少,辛烷值几乎没有损失,是一种有前途的脱硫方法。     

萃取精馏溶剂选择的研究进展

本文概括论述了萃取精馏过程中影响溶剂选择的因素，在此基础上着重介绍了溶剂的选择方法，性质约束方法可分为：试验法，经验筛选和活度系数法；计算机优化方法可分为计算机辅助分子设计法和人工神经网络法，对上述方法的适用性作了详细的讨论。     

SIMOP: Efficient reactive distillation optimization using stochastic optimizers

A methodology to improve the efficiency of stochastic methods applied to the optimization of chemical processes with a large number of equality constraints is presented. The methodology is based on two steps: (a) the optimization of the simulation step, which involves the optimum choice of design variables and subsystems to be simultaneously solved; (b) the optimization of the nonlinear programming (NLP) problem using stochastic methods. For the first step a flexible tool (SIMOP) is used, whereby different numerical procedures can be easily obtained, taking into account the problem formulation and specific characteristics, the need for specific initialization schemes and the efficient solution of systems of nonlinear equations. This methodology was applied to the optimization of a reactive distillation process for the production of ethylene glycol. Due to the complexity of the mathematical model, several different numerical procedures were generated, and their influence on the computational burden and on the reliability and accuracy of the optimization to reach the global optimum were studied. The results obtained suggest that in addition to the choice of design variables, the structure of subsystems associated to numerical procedures has a considerable impact on the performance of the optimizers.