ATAKAN
2. slayt Introduction
Hello my dear lecturer and my friends. Today, we will give you a brief reminder of our project work
on acrylic acid production.
Acrylic acid is an important building block in the production of many industrial and consumer
products. Last semester, the identity, history, properties, standards and usage areas of acrylic acid
are explained. We analyzed the import and export value in the world and Turkey, and the profit
margin is calculated. Capacity and process have been determined by taking into account the
analysis, profit margin, advantages and disadvantages. Then, unit-by-unit mass and energy balance
for acrylic acid production was calculated depending on the flow chart of the process.
ZEYNEP
3. slayt PFD
Here, we will briefly explain our process with PFD. Firstly in last semester, we decided to produce
ninety thousand tonnes per year acrylic acid in this project. According to this decide, we decided
that the most suitable production method according to the profit margin was the propylene
process. And then we calculated the amount of propylene to be fed as two hundred seven point
thirty eight kilomoles per hour based on ninety thousand tonnes and three hundred days. On this
PFD, two-step oxidation of propylene takes place. Compressor, two reactors, absorption, extraction
and distillation columns, heat exchangers and pumps are used in the process. Our inputs are
propylene, air, deionized water and solvent. Our outputs are off-gas, waste water, acetic acid and
acrylic acid.
Firstly, Air is compressed as a source of oxygen and then In the first reactor The main purpose here
is to produce acrolein from propylene. In addition, small amounts of acrylic acid, acetic acid, carbon
dioxide and water are produced. Then, The acrolein-rich gas mixture passes into the second reactor
to convert acrolein to acrylic acid. The gas mixture leaving the second reactor is fed to absorber
column. Also the top stream fed here, contains deionized water. The purpose of the absorber
column is to remove acrylic and acetic acid from the gas mixture by contacting them with the liquid
phase. The top stream product contains waste gases, and the bottom stream product contains
acrylic acid, acetic acid and water. The bottom stream of absorption column is fed to extractor
column for seperation. Also, diizopropyl ether is fed from top stream as solvent. The purpose of
the Extractor is to seperate acrylic and acetic acid in water with the solvent. As a result, the top
stream contains the most of the water and solvent. And the bottom stream contains the most of
acrylic and acetic acid. Then this stream goes to the distillation column. Here, the mixture seperated
according to its boiling points for pürifications. Final purification produces ninety nine point nine
percent acrylic acid as bottom product and ninety five percent acetic acid as top product.
The purpose of the heat exchangers (E-301, E-302 and E-305) is to cool the feed. Water is used as a
coolant.
The reboiler (E-303) is located by the distillation column and aims at vaporizing the acrylic acid in
the bottoms stream and send it back to the tower.
And finally The condenser (E-304); The hot stream consists of acetic acid, acrylic acid, and water and
is to be condensed at the same temperature and pressure.
ATAKAN
4. Slayt BFD
You may see the Block Flow Diagram on this slide. Mass and energy calculations were made per
unit. Finally, we reached the annual amount of acrylic acid we aimed to produce, and the total mass
balance was achieved as a result of the calculations.
5. Slayt Plant Lay-out
This is our factory’s plan. We consider desingning our factory as shown here.
6. Slayt Stream Table1
We created this stream table in line with the results we obtained.
7. Slayt Stream Table2
The values for each stream are shown in the table.
Thank you for listening. We wish success to all groups for this semester.
