Question: In a production process, reactor exit flow is a mixture of methyl ethyl keton ( MEK ) , secbutanol and n - butanol. The mixture

In a production process, reactor exit flow is a mixture of methyl ethyl keton (MEK), secbutanol and n-butanol. The mixture has 0.5% MEK, 69.2% sec-butanol, and 30.3%n butanol: The sec-butanol is wanted to produce with 99.2% purity. Therefore, exit flow of reactor is cooled and sent to the seperation units. The exit flow rate of the reactor is 100 kmolh and it is at 115C and 1.2bar. The feed is sent to the distillation column as a vaporliquid mixture )=(0.75. The distillate flowrate is 70kmolh and all methyl ethyl keton (MEK) is obtained from top of the column in distillate stream. Also, sec-butanol mole fraction is 0.005 in the bottom product stream. Reflux ratio is given as RD=1.3RDmin for this column. Hint: MEK concentration in the feed stream is quite low. Hence, the feed stream can be accepted as binary mixture. Determine the related parameters of colums that are:
a) at given conditions RD=1.3RDmin
i. Molar flowrates of enriching and stripping sections in the colum with McCabe Thiele method,
ii. Top and bottom temperature of column
iii. Calculate the heat loads of total conders and partial reboiler in kW,
iv. Number of theoretical stages (number of trays)
Note: MEK=431.12kJkg,s-but=584.97kJkg,n-but=598.1kJkg
 In a production process, reactor exit flow is a mixture of

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