Recovery Acetonitrile and Toluene for Siloxane Process

Equipment Design Group 5 061145004 Gke Bacaksz 061145034 elenk Muratl 061145040 Aslhan Palabyk 061145045 Gkay enol

Introduction Siloxane Process

We were asked to design a solvent seperation process for recycling Acetonitrile and Toluene solvents back into the siloxane polymerization unit. After polimerization process, there are three streams entering Recovery Unit.

Feed Stream Information

Recycle Stream Information

Waste Stream Information

Seperaton Process Flow Sheet

Discription of Design Equipmant

First Equipment : Mixer

To mix Feed A, Feed B, Feed C.

Second Equipment: Distillation Column

Siloxane seperation Operation Condition, 30 oC and 1 atm Light Key Split ( acetonitrile) : 0.99999 Heavy Key Split ( siloxane ) : 10-5 72 stages R/Rdmin=1.4

Third Equipment: Heat Exchanger

Cooling operation of distillate from 83 oC to 30 oC Utility : 3345 kg/h Syltherm XLT Calculated area : 0.8 m2 Calculated U= 250 W/m2K

Fourth Equipment: Extraction Column

Acetonitrile extraction by water

Operation Condition, 30 oC and 1 atm Acetonitrile-Toluene-Water ternary system equilibrium data [1] 550 kg/h water 3 Stages Diameter of column: 0.215 m Lenght of column: 0.932 m Type of column: RDC

Properties for Extraction Column

Fifth Equipment: Distillation Column

To obtain toluene rich stream ( Recycle A) Light Key Split ( acetonitrile) : 0.9999 Heavy Key Split ( toluene ) : 0.13 Azeotrope mixture from Top of column 13 stages R/Rdmin=1.4

Sixth Equipment: Pump

To sent extract to distillation column Power: 2.5 W Volumetric flow rate: 0.442 m3/h

Seventh Equipment: Pump

To sent feed stream to first distillation column Power: 3.6 W Volumetric flow rate: 0.64 m3/h

Eighth Equipment: Extraction Column

Acetonitrile extraction by p-xylene

Operation Condition, 30 oC and 1 atm Acetonitrile-p-xylene-Water ternary system equilibrium data [2] 2 Stages Diameter of column: 0.096 m Lenght of column: 0.476 m Type of column: Karr column

Properties for Extraction Column

Ninth Equipment: Pump

To sent extract to distillation column Power: 17.6 W Volumetric flow rate: 3.12 m3/h

Tenth Equipment: Distillation Column

To seperate p-xylene from acetonitrile water mixture (p-xylene recycle) Light Key Split ( acetonitrile) : 0.9999 Heavy Key Split ( p-xylene ) : 10-5 32 stages R/Rdmin=1.4

Eleventh Equipment: Distillation Column

To seperate water from acetonitrile (Recycle B) Light Key Split ( Toluene) : 0.9999 Heavy Key Split ( acetonitrile ) : 10-5 57 stages R/Rdmin=1.4

Twelfth Equipment: Pump To sent distillate to distillation column Power: 4 W Volumetric flow rate: 0.7 m3/h

Thirteenth Equipment: Mixer To mix make-up p-xylene with recycle pxylene Forteenth Equipment: Mixer To mix all waste stream.

Fifteenth Equipment: Heat Exchanger Cooling of Recycle p-xylene from 111 oC to 30 oC Utility : 25810 kg/h Syltherm XLT Calculated area : 5 m2 Calculated U= 250 W/m2K Fifteenth Equipment: Heat Exchanger Cooling of Recycle water from 87 oC to 30 oC Utility : 7401 kg/h Syltherm XLT Calculated area : 1.72 m2 Calculated U= 250 W/m2K Seventeenth Equipment: Mixer To mix make-up water with recycle water

overall system

Acetonitrile = A Toluene = T Siloxane = S Water = W P xylene = P

Overall Recycle Of Toluene And Acetonitrile

Recycle toluene mass flow rate = 315 kg/h % recycle toluene = % 86,7

Recycle acetonitrile mass flow rate = 133 kg/h % recycle toluene = % 84

Overall Stream Information

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