Rigorous modelling and optimization of hybrid separation processes based on pervaporation

• Authors: Katalin Koczka , Peter Mizsey , Zsolt Fonyo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Hybrid separation processes are becoming more and more important in the practice if membrane technologies are also involved. In this work, a systematic investigation is completed for three sequence alternatives of distillation and pervaporation. These are the following: pervaporation followed with distillation (PV+D), distillation followed with pervaporation (D+PV), two distillation columns and a pervaporation unit between them (D+PV+D). The hybrid separation process alternatives are evaluated with rigorous modelling tools, but first, a rigorous simulation algorithm is determined for the pervaporation. The three hybrid separation processes are rigorously modelled with CHEMCAD, and optimized with the dynamic programming optimization method for the case of the separation of ethanol-water mixture. The objective function is the total annual cost (TAC). The energy consumption is also investigated. The selection of the ethanol-water mixture has two motivations: (i) it is quite often studied and well known, and (ii) to make biofuel (ethanol) production more economical, membrane technologies might also be applied. The results are compared with each other and with the classical separation completed with heteroazeotropic distillation. The optimized TAC shows that the distillation column followed with pervaporation is the most economical hybrid separation process alternative. Its TAC is about 66% of that of the classical separation. [...]

Keywords

EN

hybrid separation processes; CHEMCAD

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Chemistry
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1124-1147

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2007

online

1 - 12 - 2007

Contributors

author

Katalin Koczka

• Department of Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering, Research Group of Technical Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, H-1521, Muegyetem rkp 3, Hungary

author

Peter Mizsey

• Department of Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering, Research Group of Technical Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, H-1521, Muegyetem rkp 3, Hungary

author

Zsolt Fonyo

• Department of Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering, Research Group of Technical Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, H-1521, Muegyetem rkp 3, Hungary

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11532-007-0050-8