Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope

Abstract Chemical process intensification has attracted extensive interest of scholars. Distillation, as a high energy consumption industry, is in urgent need of energy saving and CO2 emissions reduction by means of process intensification. In this paper, isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope was separa...

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Main Authors: Shisheng Liang, Guangle Bu
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-11-01
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description Abstract Chemical process intensification has attracted extensive interest of scholars. Distillation, as a high energy consumption industry, is in urgent need of energy saving and CO2 emissions reduction by means of process intensification. In this paper, isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope was separated by pressure swing distillation (PSD). Combined with process integration method, four heat integration PSD processes including partial heat integration PSD (PHI-PSD), enhanced partial heat integration PSD (EPHI-PSD), full heat integration PSD (FHI-PSD), and enhanced full heat integration PSD (EFHI-PSD) were designed and optimized through sequential iterative procedure. The total annual cost (TAC), CO2 emissions, and thermodynamic efficiency were calculated and compared. By comparing relevant data, it is found that EPHI-PSD process has obvious advantages in terms of economic, thermodynamic efficiency, and environmental benefits. Specifically, comparing with the basic PSD process, thermodynamic efficiency of EPHI-PSD process is improved by 97.8% while TAC and CO2 emissions are decreased by 37.0% and 50.1%, respectively.
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spelling doaj-art-99500065fc3c41378dc7b2891b5f22012025-08-20T02:22:28ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222024-11-0114111810.1038/s41598-024-79870-6Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotropeShisheng Liang0Guangle Bu1Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai UniversityCollege of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang UniversityAbstract Chemical process intensification has attracted extensive interest of scholars. Distillation, as a high energy consumption industry, is in urgent need of energy saving and CO2 emissions reduction by means of process intensification. In this paper, isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope was separated by pressure swing distillation (PSD). Combined with process integration method, four heat integration PSD processes including partial heat integration PSD (PHI-PSD), enhanced partial heat integration PSD (EPHI-PSD), full heat integration PSD (FHI-PSD), and enhanced full heat integration PSD (EFHI-PSD) were designed and optimized through sequential iterative procedure. The total annual cost (TAC), CO2 emissions, and thermodynamic efficiency were calculated and compared. By comparing relevant data, it is found that EPHI-PSD process has obvious advantages in terms of economic, thermodynamic efficiency, and environmental benefits. Specifically, comparing with the basic PSD process, thermodynamic efficiency of EPHI-PSD process is improved by 97.8% while TAC and CO2 emissions are decreased by 37.0% and 50.1%, respectively.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79870-6Pressure swing distillationOptimizationHeat integrationTotal annual costCO2 emissions
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Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope
Scientific Reports
Pressure swing distillation
Optimization
Heat integration
Total annual cost
CO2 emissions
title Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope
title_full Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope
title_fullStr Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope
title_short Comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p-xylene azeotrope
title_sort comparison of different heat integration pressure swing distillation processes for separating isobutanol and p xylene azeotrope
topic Pressure swing distillation
Optimization
Heat integration
Total annual cost
CO2 emissions
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79870-6
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