Simulation of Product Period

In comparison, the simulation of product period is fairly easy and was considered by several authors in the past with different types of models and for conventional columns (Huckaba and Danly, 1960 Meadow, 1963 Domenech and Enjalbert, 1981 Cuille and Reklaitis, 1986 Diwekar and Madhavan, 1986 Hitch and Rousseau, 1988 Ruiz, 1988 Galindez and Fredenslaund, 1988 Mujtaba, 1989 Mujtaba and Macchietto, 1998 Diwekar and Madhavan, 199la,b Sundaram and Evans, 1993a,b). Some experimental simulations of the product period were also reported with modelling (Domenech and Enjalbert, 1974 Nad and Spiegel, 1987). 

Robinson and Gilliland (1950), Abrams et al. (1987) and Hasebe et al. (1992, 1995), Sorensen and Skogestad (1996a), Barolo et al. (1998), Furlonge et al. (1999) reported simulation results using inverted, batch distillation columns with middle vessel and multi-effect batch distillation, respectively. Mujtaba (1997) simulated batch distillation operation using a continuous distillation model. 

To the best of author s knowledge no work has so far been reported on the simulation of actual shutdown operation in batch distillation. 

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