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Name / Matric. No.: Eric Chia Wei Cong / U1622265L NG Qin Ye Edwin / U1621859K Tian Jun Hua / U1621842L Tutorial Group: C31
Name / Matric. No.: Eric Chia Wei Cong / U1622265L NG Qin Ye Edwin / U1621859K Tian Jun Hua / U1621842L Tutorial Group: C31
1. What are the final compositions of the vapour and liquid products?
Composition Composition
Biphenyl 0 0.0108
2. For this set of reactions, how can the selectivity of benzene be increased?
The current reaction occurs at high temperature at around 680 degree Celsius, the
hydrodealkylation reaction is highly exothermic but the side reaction which reduces
benzene, we need to lower the reaction temperature at the same time maintain the
high conversion, this can be done through the addition of catalyst. Since
temperature the reaction rate will be lowered, therefore, less benzene will be
3. What are the roles of excess H2 and CH4 in this set of reactions?
temperature is above 500 degree Celsius, direct cooling is needed. Excess inert gas
and reactant is needed for direct cooling. Hydrogen act as both excess inert and
reactant and excess methane gas act as inert gas for direct cooling.
product?
Vapor product contains only a small fraction of benzene (0.0073 mole fraction)
whereas the Liquid product contains a large fraction of benzene (0.7096 mole
fraction). Therefore, we will focus on recovering higher purity benzene from the liquid
The liquid product consists mostly of benzene and toluene while the rest of the
components are present in traces quantity and hence, we will need to separate
Benzene from toluene. Based on literature, it is noted that both benzene and toluene
will form a miscible mixture and hence, the dominant separation process for liquid
will be distillation. From HYSYS, the boiling point of toluene is 110.6 °C whereas the
between the two and hence, distillation will be a viable option for obtaining higher
miscibility_table.pdf