Batch extractive distillation for separation of ether-isopropanol-water azeotropic system

Batch extractive distillation for ether-isopropanol-water mixture was studied by using glycol as the extractant. The influence of solvent feeding rate，reflux ratio and solvent feeding temperature was investigated. Under the optimal operation conditions：solvent feeding location at the column top，reflux ratio was 2，solvent feeding rate 11.4g/min in the step of isopropyl ether collection and 8.08 g/min in the step of isopropanol collection，solvent feeding temperature 70.0 ℃ in the step of isopropyl ether collection and 100.0 ℃ in the step of isopropanol collection，the mass fraction of isopropyl ether at the column top could reach 0.95 and its yield was 0.985，the mass fraction of isopropanol at the column top could reach 0.97 and its yield was 0.968.