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Kuwait University College of Engineering and Petroleum Chemical Engineering Department. HYSYS SIMULATION. Presented by: Badriya Al-Abdulmohsen Ghadeer Mirza Zahra Meraj. Supervised by: Prof Mohd. Fahim Eng. Yousif Ali. INTRODUCTION. Phosgene Process. 2CH 3 OH + COCL 2 DMC + 2HCL.
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Kuwait University College of Engineering and Petroleum Chemical Engineering Department HYSYS SIMULATION Presented by: Badriya Al-Abdulmohsen Ghadeer Mirza Zahra Meraj Supervised by: Prof Mohd. Fahim Eng. Yousif Ali
INTRODUCTION • Phosgene Process 2CH3OH + COCL2 DMC + 2HCL • Carbon monoxide Process 2CH3OH+CO+½O2 → (CH3O)2CO+H2O • Carbon dioxide Process 2CH3OH + CO2 → (CH3O)2CO + H2O
Programming DMC into HYSYS Adding a hypothetical component Click create a Hypo Component then click UNIFAC
Select number according to structural formula of DMC DMC = C3H6O3 • Add groups
Click on “Estimate Unknown Properties” • Add group so it’ll be added to the component list
Phosgene Process • Considered an old technique and unreliable since phosgene is toxic. 2CH3OH + COCL2 DMC + 2HCL
The stream goes through a mixer and a heater to prepare it for the reactor • The stream is heated to 130°C before it enters the conversion reactor at an assumed conversion of 95%
The stream leaving the reactor has the following compositions
The first distillation column is used to separate DMC from HCL
The top stream contains pure HCL while the bottom contains DMC • Only 81% of DMC purity in the bottom stream, therefore it undergoes further purification through another distillation column
The second distillation column is used to separate DMC from all the other components
The bottom stream contained 99% purity of DMC whilst the top stream is taken through a recycle. The top stream undergoes cooling to return the temperature back to initial temperature. A tee is used to prevent accumulation.
Before the recycle stream is mixed with the feed stream, a pump is used to increase the pressure from 1800kpa to 2000kpa.
Carbon monoxide Process 2CH3OH + CO + ½O2 → (CH3O)2CO + H2O
The stream is heated to 130˚C before entering the conversional reactor The three streams and the recycle stream(84) then go through a mixer and a heater to be prepared for entering the reactor.
The streams leaving the reactor go through a mixer and then are cooled to 45˚C in a cooler, stream (7) enters the separator which is used to separate the gases. The stream leaving the bottom of the separator then enters the distillation column (T-100) which is used to separate the DMC from the rest of the components
The bottom stream leaving the distillation column contains 95% purity of DMC whilst the overhead outlet stream is taken through a recycle.
Stream(8) is recycled by passing it through a tee which is used to prevent accumulation. Before the recycle stream is mixed with the feed stream, a pump is used to increase the pressure from 1800kpa to 2000kpa.
CO is produced from CO2 in the following reversible reaction: • CO2 + H2 ↔ CO + H2O • The conditions for the reaction are: • T = 25°C • Keq = 5x104
Carbon dioxide Process It’s known as the direct synthesis of Dimethyl carbonate from carbon dioxide and attracted attention because it’s a non toxic intermediate and able to substitute phosgene since DMC is low in toxicity and quickly biodegradable plus the low cost of production. 2CH3OH + CO2 → (CH3O)2CO + H2O
The process conditions should be at a very high supercritical pressure 30000 KPa, however I have found by many trials the following relation between pressure and conversion of the reactor. Highest conversion
The stream goes through a mixer and a heater to prepare it for the reactor. The mixed feed is then heated to 180 °C which the temperature required to operate the conversion reactor to achieve 93.42% conversion.
The stream leaving the reactor has the following compositions will be cooled to 45°C to be fed to the distillation column:
The first distillation column is used to separate DMC and water from CO2. The top stream contains almost pure CO2 while the bottom contains DMC with water and small amount of methanol.
So another distillation column will be used to purify DMC from water while CO2 will be recycled by sending it to a tee first to remove the small portion of methanol. Then it will be compressed from 1800KPa back to the initial pressure 4000KPa and cooled to the initial temperature Of the feed as well.
The second distillation column is used to separate methanol from DMC and water. The bottom stream contained 50% purity of DMC while the top stream is taken through a recycle to recycle methanol.
Before the recycle stream is mixed with the feed stream, a tee is used to prevent accumulation then it’s cooled to be pressurized by a pump from 1800kpa to 4000kpa. The third distillation column is used to separate DMC from water.
The top stream contained 99.7% purity of DMC while the bottom contains mostly water.
For all the 3 different processes we used a base case of 100 ton/day of feed and after comparing the product rate of DMC exiting from each processes we found that:
The best option would be using CO because of: • CO is very common. • The process doesn’t require any supercritical condition. • The process uses the syn gas reaction which is very common • easily performed. • Less toxic and more efficient. • Can be obtained from CO2. • Very high productivity.
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