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Acetic Acid Scrubbing Design Tutorial

The document outlines a tutorial for designing an absorption unit to scrub acetic acid from a vapor feed stream, resulting in an inert outlet gas primarily composed of CO2 and N2. It provides specific conditions for the feed and solvent streams and requires the use of the NRTL method to determine the amount of CO2 absorbed in the liquid product stream. Additionally, it instructs on conducting a sensitivity analysis by varying the liquid solvent temperature and plotting a sensitivity curve to conclude the results.

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Acetic Acid Scrubbing Design Tutorial

The document outlines a tutorial for designing an absorption unit to scrub acetic acid from a vapor feed stream, resulting in an inert outlet gas primarily composed of CO2 and N2. It provides specific conditions for the feed and solvent streams and requires the use of the NRTL method to determine the amount of CO2 absorbed in the liquid product stream. Additionally, it instructs on conducting a sensitivity analysis by varying the liquid solvent temperature and plotting a sensitivity curve to conclude the results.

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Tutorial 4

Q. Design an absorption unit that will scrub acetic acid from the feed stream so that we
end up with an inert outlet gas stream, mainly composed of CO2 and N2. Assume the
conditions given below:

Streams Phase Mass Pressure Temperature Composition (wt%)


Flow (bar) (oC)
Rate N2 CO2 Water Acetic
(kg/hr) Acid

Feed Vapour 100 2 100 12 80 0 8


Gas

Solvent Liquid 150 2 30 0 0 100 0

Assume the number of stages in the system to be 5. And solve it by using the NRTL
method.

Q. Find CO2 absorbed in the Liquid Product Stream.

Q. Conduct sensitivity analysis to reduce the CO2 absorbed by varying Liq Solvent
temperature. Plot a sensitivity curve and conclude the results.

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