• The performance of a reactive distillation column with cyclic operation is analysed. This the first simulation for an equilibrium reaction. Conventional and are compared production MTBE. In this paper MTBE from isobutene methanol via studied mass energy balance stage model. study shows application model, where reaction assumed. A process design equivalent to conventional has been simulated. o...

Dimethyl ether (DME) is of great industrial interest due to its use as clean fuel for diesel engines or in combustion cells, as a precursor to other organic compounds, as well as a green aerosol propellant that can effectively replace chloro-fluoro-carbons. Conventionally, high purity DME is synthesized by dehydration of methanol produced from syngas, in a process involving a catalytic fixed-be...

Reactive residue curve maps (RRCM) are useful for the design of reactive distillation columns as a tool to establish feasible zones of reaction-separation. The calculation of RRCM usually involves great computational effort due to the nonlinearity of the model equations and its iterative nature for the determination of reactive phase equilibrium. In this study, a simplified method for the gener...

Distillation separates compounds by the variation in how effortlessly they vaporize. The two main types of standard distillation comprise unremitting distillation and batch distillation. Unremitting distillation, as the name says, unremittingly takes a feed and separates it into two or more products. Batch distillation takes on lot (or batch) at a time of feed and splits it into products by sel...

Most industrial control systems consist of a significant number loops. Generally, large processes are divided into many interconnected subsystems affecting each other, thus creating multivariable known as multiple–input multiple–output (MIMO) process. Generalized Predictive Control (GPC) based algorithm is most suitable for MIMO systems. In this study, multivariate nonlinear (NL) GPC and discre...