A heat & mass integration approach to reduce capital and operating costs of a distillation configuration

Conference · Wed Nov 11 04:00:00 EST 2015

OSTI ID:1229700

Madenoor Ramapriya, Gautham ^[1]; Jiang, Zheyu ^[2]; Tawarmalani, Mohit ^[2]; Agrawal, Rakesh ^[2]

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1. Purdue University; School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
2. Purdue University

We propose a general method to consolidate distillation columns of a distillation configuration using heat and mass integration. The proposed method encompasses all heat and mass integrations known till date, and includes many more. Each heat and mass integration eliminates a distillation column, a condenser, a reboiler and the heat duty associated with a reboiler. Thus, heat and mass integration can potentially offer significant capital and operating cost benefits. In this talk, we will study the various possible heat and mass integrations in detail, and demonstrate their benefits using case studies. This work will lay out a framework to synthesize an entire new class of useful configurations based on heat and mass integration of distillation columns.

• Research Organization: Purdue University
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Advanced Manufacturing Office (EE-5A)
• DOE Contract Number: EE0005768
• OSTI ID: 1229700
• Report Number(s): DOE-PURDUE-05768
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
Distillation