Heat Pump in Multicomponent Non-Ideal Distillation
This study deals with reducing energy requirement in multicomponent distillation processes using heat pump technique. Heat pump with and without split tower technique was considered for two ternary (Methanol-Ethanol-Water and Acetone-methanol-Water), and one quaternary feed systems (n-Hexane – MCP – Ethanol and Benzene)and many variables have considered such as operating pressure, feed composition, and fractional recovery. The separation was carried out using one configuration for each feed system according to their non-ideality.