Batch Extractive Distillation Acetone-Methanol with Water as the Entrainer

1 BATCH EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION (ACETONE-METHANOL WITH WATER AS THE ENTRAINER) 

Design and Control of Distillation Systems for Separating Azeotropes. By William L. Luyben and I-Lung Chien Copyright 2010 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

TABLE 13.1 NRTL Parameters for an Acetone-Methanol-Water System. 

i Comp, j Acetone Methanol Acetone Water Methanol Water 

90°C while the predicted azeotropic temperature from our NRTL model is 55.24°C. The predicted azeotropic composition and temperature are within the range of the experimental data thus, the prediction should be reliable. 

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