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Energy saving in conventional and uncoventional batch reactive distillation: application to hydrolysis of methyl lactate system

Edreder, E.A.
Emtir, M.
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2014
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In this work, energy consumption in a middle vessel batch reactive distillation (MVBRD) column is considered for the production of lactic acid via hydrolysis of methyl lactate. A dynamic optimization problem incorporating a process model is formulated to minimize the batch time which consequently minimizes the total energy consumption. The problem is subject to constraints on the amount and purity of lactic acid. The optimisation variables are reflux ratio and/or reboil ratio which are treated as piecewise constant. The earlier work of the authors on energy consumption in conventional batch reactive distillation column (CBRD) for the same reaction system is used for comparative analysis with the energy consumption in MVBRD. As an example, for a given separation task, the optimization results show that MVBRD is capable of saving over 23 % energy compared to energy consumption in CBRD column for the same task.
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Edreder EA, Emtir M and Mujtaba IM (2014) Energy saving in conventional and uncoventional batch reactive distillation: application to hydrolysis of methyl lactate system. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. 33: 1261-1266.
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