INDEX

Activities, 243
Activity coefcient, 9
American Petroleum Institute (API), 295
Aspen Split, 13, 20, 103
Assay, 294
ASTM, 292
Azeotrope, 12, 99
heterogeneous, 12, 113
homogeneous, 12
minimum boiling, 12
Benzene, 112
Boiling points, 292
BTX (benzene, toluene, xylene), 137
Bubblepoint, 9
Butanol, 258
Capital cost, 89
Capture screen layout, 169
Cascade control, 178
Cat fractionator, 291
Chemical potential, 9
Choa-Seader, 7
Condenser, 61, 88
Condition number, 132
Congure, 160
Congure Sensor, 313
Control signal, 158
Control structure, 157, 192, 210, 223, 273
Controller faceplate, 160
Controller
action (reverse/direct), 161
initialize, 160
input (PV), 160
installing, 158
modes (auto, manual, cascade), 163
output (OP), 160
Convergence, 61, 108, 118, 122
Crude oil, 291
Deadtime, 169
Decanter, 113, 118, 222
Dechema, 7
Degrees of freedom, 27
Dephlegmator, 195
Design Spec, 326
Design spec/vary, 66, 121
Dimethyl ether (DME), 252
DISTIL, 13, 35, 41
Distillation boundary, 103, 113
Dual composition control, 206
Dual temperature control, 217
Economic basis, 87
Energy cost, 89
Engler, 292
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Equimolal overow, 29
ETBE, 236
Ethanol, 112, 222
Ethylene glycol, 235
Excess reactant (reactive
distillation), 235
Exporting, 153
Extractive distillation, 238
Feed thermal condition, q, 31
Fenske equation, 39, 85
Final boiling point (FBP), 292
F-factor, 84
Flash point, 294
Flooding, 194
Flowsheet equations, 210, 222, 337
Flowsheeting Options, 125
Fugacity coefcient, 9
Furnace, 307, 321
Gaps, 320
Gasoil, 326
Heat integrated columns, 122, 209
Heavy key, 27, 40
Heuristics, 85
Hide, 109
Hydraulics, 84, 152, 245
Initial boiling point (IBP), 292
Initialization, 156
Interaction, 193, 212
Light entrainer, 113
Light key, 27, 40
McCabeThiele, 28, 35
Methanol (MeOH), 124
Methyl acetate, 98, 188
Minimum reux ratio, 35, 41, 80, 87
Minimum number of trays, 35, 39, 81, 85
Multiplicity, 67, 120, 149
Neat operation, 125, 210, 235
Nested control loops, 260, 268
NewtonRaphson, 9
Nonlinear program, 92
Nonideality, 12
NRTL, 7
Octane number, 294
Olen metathesis, 234
Operating lines, 30
rectifying, 30
stripping, 31
Optimization, 85, 91
Overash, 326, 336
Overlaps, 320
Partial condenser, 190
Pause, 156
PetroFrac, 304, 321
Petroleum fractions, 292
PIDIncr, 169
Pinch condition, 35
Physical properties, 53
Pipestill, 291, 316
Plantwide control, 246
Plots, 179
Plot Wizard, 6, 12, 78, 293
Preash column, 304
Pressure changers, 48
Pressure check, 152
Pressure swing, 238
Pseudocomponents, 294, 299
Pumparound, 292, 318, 322, 332
Pumps, 48, 63
Purge column, 281
q (feed thermal condition), 31
q-line, 31
Radfrac, 45, 116
Reactions, 242
Reactive distillation, 232
Rectier, 271, 304
Recycle, 122, 222
Reboiler, 61, 88
Renery, 291
Reux ow convention, 165
Reux ratio, 28
Reforming, 320
Reid vapor pressure (RVP), 294
Relative volatility, 7
Relayfeedback test, 167
Residue curves, 18, 42, 103
Reveal, 108
Rewind, 166
Run, 156
Saturated liquid, 3
Saturated vapor, 3
Saybolt, 292
Sensitivity criterion, 131
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Show as History, 182
Sidestream columns, 251
Simultaneous design, 45
Single-end control, 130, 214
Singular value decomposition (SVD), 132, 217
Sizing
column, 81
equipment, 151
resizing pumps and valves, 256
Slope criterion, 131
Snapshots, 166
Stripper, 264, 292, 321, 322
Stripping steam, 333
Subcooled liquid, 3
Superheated vapor, 3
TAME, see tert-Amyl methyl ether
Tear, 122
Ternary diagram, 10, 42, 103, 110, 113, 122, 247
Ternary mixing rule, 10
tert-Amyl methyl ether (TAME), 238
Total annual cost, 88
Trapout tray, 196
True boiling point (TBP), 292
Txy diagram, 3, 99
TyreusLuyben tuning, 171, 288
Underwood equations, 41
Unifac, 7
Valves, 48, 63
Valve pressure drop, 59
van Laar, 7
Vapor liquid (phase) equilibrium (VLE), 1
Vapor liquidliquid (phase) equilibrium
(VLLE), 1, 113
Vapor pressure, 1
Vapor sidestream column, 257
Volatility, 2
Weeping, 193
Wilson, 7, 99
xy diagram, 3
Ziegler Nichols tuning, 288
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