Computer simulations azeotropic distillation

Design and Operation of Azeotropic Distillation Columns Simulation and design of azeotropic distillation columns is a difficult computational problem, but one fhat is readily handled, in most cases, by widely available commercial computer process simulation packages [Glasscock and Hale, Chem. Eng., 101(11), 82 (1994)]. Most simma-... 

Kurooka T., Y. Yamahsita, H. Nishitani, Y. Hashimoto, M. Yoshida, and M. Numata, Dynamic simulation and nonlinear control system design of a heterogeneous azeotropic distillation column, Comput. Chem. Engng., 24, 887-892 (2000). 

Junqueira, T. L., M. O. S. Dias, R. M. Filho, M. R. W. Maciel and C. E. V. Rossell (2009). Simulation of the azeotropic distillation for anhydrous bioethanol production study on the formation of a second liquid phase. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering 27 1143-1148. 

Baird [Comp. Chem. Engng., 9, 593 (1985)]. Since then, they have been applied successfully to problems involving interlinked distillation (Wayburn and Seader, op. cit.), azeotropic and three-phase distillation [Kovach, 111 and Seider, Comp. Chem. Engng., 11,593(1987)], and reac tive distillation [Chang and Seader, Comp. Chem. Engng., 12, 1243 (1988)], when SC and inside-out methods have failed. Today, many computer-aided distillation-design and simulation packages include continuation techniques to make the codes more robust. 

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