Tray columns schematic representation

Reactive distillation is a technology that simultaneously performs fractional distillation and chemical reaction. Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a reactive distillation tray column for a reaction of the type... 

It will be helpful to begin with a brief review of the NEQ model of Krishnamurthy and Taylor [7] for conventional distillation and absorption operations. A schematic representation of the NEQ stage is shown in Fig. 9.2. This NEQ stage may represent a tray or a cross section of a packed column. 

Figure 7.12. Schematic representation of a RD column in the synthesis of MTBE. Remark numbers represent tray location.

Figure 7.14. Schematic representation of a MTBE RD column with a 4x4 SISO control structure. Remarks the coupling between controlled and manipulated variables for each control loop are listed in table 7.5 numbers represent tray location.

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