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Ethanol Production Process Design Tutorial

This tutorial document provides two chemical engineering problems related to process plant design. The first problem involves calculating the yield of ethanol and diethyl ether produced as byproducts from the hydrolysis of ethylene. The second problem involves evaluating and ranking different reactor configurations, including batch, plug-flow, and continuous, to maximize the production of a desired liquid-phase reaction product while minimizing an undesirable side reaction.

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Ethanol Production Process Design Tutorial

This tutorial document provides two chemical engineering problems related to process plant design. The first problem involves calculating the yield of ethanol and diethyl ether produced as byproducts from the hydrolysis of ethylene. The second problem involves evaluating and ranking different reactor configurations, including batch, plug-flow, and continuous, to maximize the production of a desired liquid-phase reaction product while minimizing an undesirable side reaction.

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Chemical Engineering Department

CDB 3044 Process Plant Design


Tutorial - 2
22nd Jun 2017
(Submission Deadline: 29th Jun 2017)

1. In the production of ethanol by the hydrolysis of ethylene, diethyl ether is produced as a by-product. A
typical feed stream composition is having 55% ethylene, 5% inerts, 40% water and product stream is
having 52.26% ethylene, 5.49% ethanol, 0.16% ether, 36.81% water, 5.28% inerts. Calculate the yield of
ethanol and ether based on ethylene.

Reactions

2. A desired liquid-phase reaction:

is accompanied by a parallel reaction:

Evaluate the different possible reactor configurations such as ideal batch, semi-batch, plug-flow, semi-
plug-flow and mixed flow for the reaction system. In the case of the semi-batch and semi-plug flow
reactors, the order of addition of A and B can be changed. Order the reactor configurations from the
most desirable to the least desirable to maximize production of the desired product.

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