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Optimal Design of Heat Integrated Reduced Vapor Transfer Dividing Wall Columns

Duanmu, F; Sorensen, E; (2022) Optimal Design of Heat Integrated Reduced Vapor Transfer Dividing Wall Columns. In: Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. (pp. 175-180). Elsevier

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Abstract

A dividing wall column (DWC) is capable of saving capital costs and improving energy efficiency for ternary liquid separations. Alternative DWC structures have been proposed, termed Reduced Vapor Transfer DWC (RVT-DWC) in this work, which involves less difficult-to-control vapor transfer streams. The most interesting RVT-DWC structure, the LL structure, which has a dividing wall extending throughout the column and has no interconnected vapor transfer streams, is studied in this work. Three heat integrated designs of the LL structure, the LL structure with combined condenser and reboiler (LL-CCR), vapor recompression assisted LL structure (VR-LL), and vapor recompression assisted LL structure with combined condenser and reboiler (VR-LL-CCR), are introduced and compared to the standard DWC, standard LL structure, and vapor recompression assisted DWC (VR-DWC) designs, respectively. Although the LL-CCR structure shows only minor improvement in total annualized costs (TAC) when compared to the LL structure, its vapor recompression assisted design (VR-LL-CCR) has the lowest TAC among all the structures studied (17 % lower than LL-CCR, 4 % lower than VR-DWC, and 10 % lower than VR-LL). Moreover, the vapor recompression assisted structures have lower TAC than their corresponding base structures.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Optimal Design of Heat Integrated Reduced Vapor Transfer Dividing Wall Columns
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-85159-6.50029-4
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85159-6.50029-4
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Distillation, Dividing Wall Column, Optimization, Heat integration, Vapor recompression
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157438
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