Thermodynamic Analysis and Process Simulation of Ethanol Dehydration via Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation

The heterogeneous azeotropic distillation process is widely used to separate nonideal binary mixtures into their constituent pure components. This method uses the addition of a third component, called an entrainer, to cause liquid–liquid phase separation over a broad range of compositions in the ternary phase diagram. Ethanol dehydration was used as a case study and diisopropyl ether and isobutyl alcohol were analyzed as possible entrainers in a heterogeneous azeotropic distillation. In this way, isobaric vapor–liquid–liquid equilibrium was measured for the ethanol + water + diisopropyl ether or + isobutyl alcohol ternary mixtures at 101.3 kPa. The data were correlated by the NRTL and UNIQUAC models, and a set of parameters for each model was obtained. A separation sequence for ethanol dehydration using diisopropyl ether was proposed. The simulation of the separation sequence was carried out satisfactorily by commercial software (Aspen Hysys) using the thermodynamic model UNIQUAC with the binary parameter...

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