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Article history: This paper presents the study of binary component analysis subjected to distillation process using Aspen
Received 7 June 2020 Plus. Binary components namely Isopropyle alcohol and water were considered for the study and their
Received in revised form 21 July 2020 characteristics are analyzed at certain temperature and pressure. Aspen Plus provides virtual exposure
Accepted 24 July 2020
of physical process, gives quantitative measure of mole fraction of liquid phase, vapor phase with changes
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in temperature, pressure and activity coefficients. Steady state and dynamic simulation results depicts
the behavior of the system and enables the user to understand how the system reacts in virtual environ-
Keywords:
ment, to realize the system behavior in real-time environment.
Distillation process
RadFrac
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Aspen Plus Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Confer-
Component analysis ence On Impact Of Innovations In Science And Technology For Societal Development: Materials Science.
Temperature control
⇑ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: it.arasu@manipal.edu (T. Indiran).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.609
2214-7853/Ó 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Conference On Impact Of Innovations In Science And Technology For Societal
Development: Materials Science.
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where main flow sheet will be opened. On the footer side of the is selected, insert mode should be disabled using ‘cancel insert
page there appears model palette which consists of mixers/split- mode’ which is represented as arrow on the model palette. Now
ters, separators, exchangers, columns, reactors, pressure changers, material should be enabled by clicking on material block on the
manipulators, solids, solid separators and user models. User can model palette. Red and blue arrow marks are enabled on the block
choose any type of the column based on requirement. Once block which characterizes mandatory and options connections, respec-
Please cite this article as: E. Sarath Yadav, T. Indiran, D. Nayak et al., Simulation study of distillation column using Aspen plus, Materials Today: Proceed-
ings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.609
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4. Result analysis
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Fig. 10. Equilibrium diagram of Txy plot for isopropyle and water.
Fig. 11. Equilibrium diagram of P-xy plot for isopropyle and water.
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4.2. Aspen dynamic analysis phase, vapor phase with changes in temperature, pressure, activity
coefficients, respectively. Dynamic simulation involves the closed
Isopropyle alcohol and water as feed components the steady loop study of the process using certain PID control methods.
state analysis is extended to Aspen dynamics to study transient Results depicts the behavior of the system and effect conventional
response. Fig. 12 shows the dynamic simulation of Radfrac distilla- control over different variables.
tion column with three variable control. Loop1 is reflux drum con-
trol where manipulated variable is distillate flow rate controller is Declaration of Competing Interest
PI.
Fig. 13 shows the response of liquid level control of reflux drum The authors declare that they have no known competing finan-
where distillate flow rate is manipulated variable. Servo operation cial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared
has been applied at different step changes. Fig. 14 shows the to influence the work reported in this paper.
response of the condenser pressure with closed loop control.
Fig. 15 depicts the sump level control. Acknowledgements
4.3. Review of Aspen (Pros and Cons) Authors would like to thank Department of Chemical Engineer-
ing, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher
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