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PROJECT OF VINYL CHLORIDE MONOMER (VCM) PLANT

1. Question 3

Project of Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant

The process flow for simulation of VCM manufacturing plant is shown in Figure below.

Figure: A flowsheet of Vinyl chloride monomer unit production

Pure ethylene, stored as gas at 700F and 1000psia, with a flowrate of 20 tons/hr, and pure
chlorine, stored as liquid at 700F and 150psia, with a flowrate of 50 tons/hr enter the mixer block
B1 operated at 2 atm. The mixer outlet F1 then goes to the reactor B2 run at 363 K and 1.5 atm.
In this Rstoic, the following chlorination reaction occurs with 95% conversion of ethylene to 1,2-
dichloroethane:

C2H4 + Cl2 → C2H4Cl2

Ethylene chlorine dichloroethane

In the next, mixer B3 operated at 1.4 atm allows the mixing of recycled stream F12 with reactor
product F2. The outlet stream F3 is then condensed fully to liquid phase in block B4 at 298 K
before being pumped to an evaporator. The pump B5 has discharged the liquid at 26 atm. The
evaporator B6 performs the phase change operation and then the vapour temperature is
increased in the same unit to 515K. In this subsequent step, stream F6 is introduced in the
reactor B7 (RStoic) in which the following pyrolysis reaction occurs:

C2H4 Cl2 → C2H3 Cl2 + HCl

Dichloroethane VCM hydrogen chloride

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The dichloroethane is converted to VCM and it takes places spontaneously at 773K and 25
atm with 65% conversion. To reduce carbon deposition in the heat exchanger the hot vapour
stream leaving the reactor is quenched in B8 yielding a saturated vapour stream at 443K.
Quencher effluent stream F8 is condensed to liquid phase in block B9 at 279K and then fed to
DSTWU column B10 as stream F9. In the next stream F10 is introduced in another DSTWU
column B11. The first column mainly separates HCl from other components, while the second
column purifies VCM from the rests. Both the distillation columns have 10 theoretical stages
(including condenser and reboiler) and a total condenser along with the specifications, shown in
Table below:

Table: Parameters of DSTWU

% Recovery of LK/HK in distillate Pressure (atm)

Block Light key (LK) Heavy key (HK) Condenser Reboiler

B10 99.9% of HCl 0.1 of VCM 20 22

B11 99.9% of VCM 0.1 of dichloroethane 7.5 8

Finally block B12 (FSplit) split stream F11 to ensure recycling of 99.99% of F11 as F12 stream
to mixer B3. A purge stream is introduced to prevent accumulation of unreacted components.

HINT:

Using POLYSRK property method

Question

1. Simulate the flowsheet and determine the composition of all streams.

2. Design the RadFrac for DSTWU replacement. Then, perform the strategy for combining
the RadFrac in the flowsheet appropriately.

Note: Maintain the pressure of condenser and reboiler for both column distillations.

3. Design a heatX to integrate hot and cold stream available in the plant.

4. Evaluate the strategy to produce 635 kmol/hr VCM in stream D2.

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2. Question 1

C2H4
B1
B2 B3 B6
F1 B5 B7
B4 F5 F6
F3 F4 B8
F2
F7
CL2 F10
F12
B12

D2 D1 F8
PURGE
B11 B10

B9

F11 F9

Figure 1

 Figure 1 shows the process of the system

Figure 2

 This figure shows the components set up based on the question

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Figure 3

 The method input for the system

Figure 4

 Specification for ethylene

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Figure 5

 Specification for chlorine gas

Figure 6

 Specification in mixer B1

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Figure 7

 Specification in RStoic B2

Figure 8

 Specification for B2 stoichiometry

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Figure 9

 Specification in mixer B3

Figure 10

 Specification in heater B4

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Figure 11

 Specification in pump B5

Figure 12

 Specification in heater B6

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Figure 13

 Specification in RStoic B7

Figure 14

 Specification B7 stoichiometry

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Figure 15

 Specification for heater B8

Figure 16

 Specification for B9 heater

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Figure 17

 Specification for DSTWU B10

Figure 18

 Specification for DSTWU B11

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Figure 19

 Specification for FSplit B12

Figure 20

 Convergence for the Question 1

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Heat and Material Balance Table

Stream ID C2H4 CL2 D1 D2 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PURGE
From B10 B11 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B12
To B1 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B3
Phase VAPOR LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID MIXED MIXED MIXED LIQUID LIQUID VAPOR VAPOR VAPOR MIXED LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID
Substream: MIXED
Mole Flow lbmol/hr
ETHYL-01 1425.834 0.0 71.26054 .0311483 1425.834 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 .0311483 1.27219E-8 1.27210E-8 1.2722E-12
CHLOR-01 0.0 1410.330 30.42425 25.36344 1410.330 55.78768 55.79108 55.79108 55.79108 55.79108 55.79108 55.79108 55.79108 25.36684 3.40111E-3 3.40080E-3 3.40111E-7
1:2-D-01 0.0 0.0 0.0 69.20700 0.0 1354.542 1977.343 1977.343 1977.343 1977.343 692.0700 692.0700 692.0700 692.0700 622.8630 622.8007 .0622863
VINYL-01 0.0 0.0 128.6431 1156.630 0.0 0.0 1.157722 1.157722 1.157722 1.157722 1286.431 1286.431 1286.431 1157.788 1.157788 1.157722 1.15779E-4
HYDRO-01 0.0 0.0 1283.988 1.285272 0.0 0.0 5.86795E-7 5.86795E-7 5.86795E-7 5.86795E-7 1285.273 1285.273 1285.273 1.285273 5.86830E-7 5.86795E-7 5.8683E-11
Total Flow lbmol/hr 1425.834 1410.330 1514.315 1252.517 2836.164 1481.622 2105.583 2105.583 2105.583 2105.583 3390.856 3390.856 3390.856 1876.541 624.0242 623.9618 .0624024
Total Flow lb/hr 40000.00 1.00000E+5 59011.38 80982.45 1.40000E+5 1.40000E+5 2.01704E+5 2.01704E+5 2.01704E+5 2.01704E+5 2.01704E+5 2.01704E+5 2.01704E+5 1.42693E+5 61710.60 61704.43 6.171060
Total Flow cuft/hr 2864.164 1140.140 1011.509 1463.592 1.97619E+5 1.95341E+5 2.79588E+5 2630.641 2633.664 40675.08 1.37122E+5 69459.88 3075.205 2666.315 983.3637 983.2654 .0983363
Temperature F 70.00000 70.00000 22.56457 122.6168 -64.51863 193.7300 193.1056 76.73000 78.46264 467.3300 931.7300 337.7300 42.53000 261.3491 335.0151 335.0151 335.0151
Pressure psia 1000.000 150.0000 293.9190 110.2196 29.39190 22.04392 20.57433 42.92292 382.0947 382.0947 367.3987 367.3987 184.9650 323.3109 117.5676 117.5676 117.5676
Vapor Frac 1.000000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .4968136 .4244830 .3992424 0.0 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.00000E-6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Liquid Frac 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 .5031864 .5755170 .6007576 1.000000 1.000000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .9999990 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
Solid Frac 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Enthalpy Btu/lbmol 19553.84 -8053.968 -38129.77 170.9697 5825.397 -55606.30 -57643.65 -66195.68 -66079.09 -44923.96 -8521.138 -18610.26 -30907.89 -19012.01 -62481.45 -62481.43 -62481.45
Enthalpy Btu/lb 697.0132 -113.5875 -978.4638 2.644305 118.0127 -588.4821 -601.7395 -691.0136 -689.7966 -468.9592 -143.2490 -312.8573 -519.5930 -250.0249 -631.8191 -631.8189 -631.8191
Enthalpy Btu/hr 2.78805E+7 -1.1359E+7 -5.7741E+7 2.14142E+5 1.65218E+7 -8.2387E+7 -1.2137E+8 -1.3938E+8 -1.3914E+8 -9.4591E+7 -2.8894E+7 -6.3105E+7 -1.0480E+8 -3.5677E+7 -3.8990E+7 -3.8986E+7 -3898.993
Entropy Btu/lbmol-R -25.84701 -18.89239 -17.28754 -29.07438 -19.28060 -49.82255 -51.31644 -65.26173 -65.20738 -38.17195 -2.716459 -12.10455 -31.25416 -34.38547 -55.74438 -55.74438 -55.74438
Entropy Btu/lb-R -.9213386 -.2664450 -.4436227 -.4496794 -.3905923 -.5272726 -.5356899 -.6812642 -.6806968 -.3984752 -.0456664 -.2034898 -.5254142 -.4521996 -.5636931 -.5636931 -.5636931
Density lbmol/cuft .4978184 1.236979 1.497086 .8557824 .0143516 7.58479E-3 7.53103E-3 .8004070 .7994882 .0517659 .0247288 .0488174 1.102644 .7037956 .6345813 .6345813 .6345813
Density lb/cuft 13.96568 87.70850 58.33995 55.33129 .7084342 .7166949 .7214354 76.67502 76.58700 4.958919 1.470989 2.903898 65.59056 53.51695 62.75461 62.75461 62.75461
A verage MW 28.05376 70.90540 38.96901 64.65579 49.36245 94.49107 95.79504 95.79504 95.79504 95.79504 59.48481 59.48481 59.48481 76.04048 98.89136 98.89136 98.89136
Liq Vol 60F cuft/hr 1934.785 1149.227 1365.686 1392.356 3084.012 1864.715 2657.992 2657.992 2657.992 2657.992 3551.398 3551.398 3551.398 2185.712 793.3561 793.2769 .0793356

Table 1

 Simulation Results and Composition

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3. Question 2

C2H4
B1
B2 B3 B6
F1 B5 B7
B4 F5 F6
F3 F4 B8
F2
F7
CL2
F12 F10
B12 B11 B10
D2 D1 F8
F11
PURGE

B9

F9

Figure 21

 The figure shows the changes of DSTWU to RadFrac on B10 and B11

Figure 22

 The results from DSTWU B10 were taken

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Figure 23

 Specification for RadFrac B10 based on DSTWU B10

Figure 24

 The results from DSTWU B11 were taken

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Figure 25

 Specification for RadFrac B11 based on DSTWU B11

Figure 26

 Convergence for the Question 2

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Heat and Material Balance T able

Stream ID C2H4 CL2 D1 D2 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PURGE
From B10 B11 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B12
To B1 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B3
Phase VAPOR LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID MIXED MIXED MIXED LIQUID LIQUID VAPOR VAPOR VAPOR MIXED LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID
Substream: MIXED
Mole Flow lbmol/hr
ET HY L-01 1425.834 0.0 71.29151 1.76979E-4 1425.834 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 1.76979E-4 4.5700E-15 4.5676E-15 4.5700E-19
CHLOR-01 0.0 1410.330 31.05573 24.73195 1410.330 55.78768 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 24.73198 2.41156E-5 2.41128E-5 2.41156E-9
1:2-D-01 0.0 0.0 .0479758 68.30360 0.0 1354.542 1978.659 1978.659 1978.659 1978.659 692.5305 692.5305 692.5305 692.4825 624.1789 624.1165 .0624178
VINY L-01 0.0 0.0 126.2778 1159.850 0.0 0.0 .0388131 .0388131 .0388131 .0388131 1286.167 1286.167 1286.167 1159.889 .0388166 .0388131 3.88167E-6
HY DRO-01 0.0 0.0 1286.111 .0170969 0.0 0.0 4.8553E-13 4.8553E-13 4.8553E-13 4.8553E-13 1286.128 1286.128 1286.128 .0170969 4.8570E-13 4.8553E-13 4.8570E-17
T otal Flow lbmol/hr 1425.834 1410.330 1514.784 1252.903 2836.164 1481.622 2105.777 2105.777 2105.777 2105.777 3391.905 3391.905 3391.905 1877.121 624.2178 624.1553 .0624217
T otal Flow lb/hr 40000.00 1.00000E+5 58991.37 81002.45 1.40000E+5 1.40000E+5 2.01765E+5 2.01765E+5 2.01765E+5 2.01765E+5 2.01765E+5 2.01765E+5 2.01765E+5 1.42773E+5 61770.65 61764.47 6.177065
T otal Flow cuft/hr 2864.164 1140.140 939.1448 1465.792 1.97619E+5 1.95341E+5 2.79862E+5 2631.083 2634.105 40670.37 1.37164E+5 69482.04 3075.979 2449.536 984.7421 984.6436 .0984742
T emperature F 70.00000 70.00000 -20.54957 123.1710 -64.51863 193.7300 193.1947 76.73000 78.46235 467.3300 931.7300 337.7300 42.53000 196.4165 335.9313 335.9313 335.9313
Pressure psia 1000.000 150.0000 146.9595 110.2196 29.39190 22.04392 20.57433 42.89331 382.0947 382.0947 367.3987 367.3987 185.0151 176.3514 117.5676 117.5676 117.5676
Vapor Frac 1.000000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .4968136 .4244830 .3995542 0.0 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.00000E-6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Liquid Frac 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 .5031864 .5755170 .6004458 1.000000 1.000000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .9999990 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
Solid Frac 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Enthalpy Btu/lbmol 19553.84 -8053.968 -38891.88 295.4889 5825.397 -55606.30 -57673.74 -66235.64 -66119.04 -44960.19 -8533.823 -18622.31 -30919.88 -20876.49 -62581.45 -62581.45 -62581.45
Enthalpy Btu/lb 697.0132 -113.5875 -998.6680 4.570466 118.0127 -588.4821 -601.9297 -691.2886 -690.0717 -469.2408 -143.4639 -313.0636 -519.8006 -274.4753 -632.4113 -632.4113 -632.4113
Enthalpy Btu/hr 2.78805E+7 -1.1359E+7 -5.8913E+7 3.70219E+5 1.65218E+7 -8.2387E+7 -1.2145E+8 -1.3948E+8 -1.3923E+8 -9.4676E+7 -2.8946E+7 -6.3165E+7 -1.0488E+8 -3.9188E+7 -3.9064E+7 -3.9061E+7 -3906.446
Entropy Btu/lbmol-R -25.84701 -18.89239 -18.74604 -29.06460 -19.28060 -49.82255 -51.33254 -65.29116 -65.23680 -38.19803 -2.717949 -12.10547 -31.25508 -37.10692 -55.79582 -55.79582 -55.79582
Entropy Btu/lb-R -.9213386 -.2664450 -.4813619 -.4495559 -.3905923 -.5272726 -.5357478 -.6814312 -.6808639 -.3986654 -.0456920 -.2035075 -.5254357 -.4878662 -.5638396 -.5638396 -.5638396
Density lbmol/cuft .4978184 1.236979 1.612940 .8547620 .0143516 7.58479E-3 7.52435E-3 .8003461 .7994278 .0517766 .0247287 .0488170 1.102707 .7663171 .6338896 .6338896 .6338896
Density lb/cuft 13.96568 87.70850 62.81392 55.26191 .7084342 .7166949 .7209437 76.68496 76.59697 4.960969 1.470968 2.903836 65.59358 58.28578 62.72775 62.72775 62.72775
Average MW 28.05376 70.90540 38.94375 64.65181 49.36245 94.49107 95.81475 95.81475 95.81475 95.81475 59.48412 59.48412 59.48412 76.05962 98.95689 98.95689 98.95689
Liq Vol 60F cuft/hr 1934.785 1149.227 1365.502 1393.134 3084.012 1864.715 2658.421 2658.421 2658.421 2658.421 3552.422 3552.422 3552.422 2186.920 793.7861 793.7066 .0793786

Table 2

 Simulation Results and Compositions

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4. Question 3

C2H4 B9
B1 F8
B6
B2 B3
F1 B5 F6 B7
B4 F5
F3 F4
F2

CL2 F7
F12 F10
B12 B11 B10
D2 D1
F11
PURGE

F9

Figure 27

 The figure shows the changes of heater to heatX B6

Figure 28

 Specification for the HeatX B6

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Figure 29

 Convergence for Question 3

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Heat and Material Balance T able

Stream ID C2H4 CL2 D1 D2 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PURGE
From B10 B11 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B6 B9 B10 B11 B12 B12
To B1 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B6 B9 B10 B11 B12 B3
Phase VAPOR LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID MIXED MIXED MIXED LIQUID LIQUID VAPOR VAPOR MIXED MIXED LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID
Substream: MIXED
Mole Flow lbmol/ hr
ET HY L-01 1425.834 0.0 71.29151 1.76974E-4 1425.834 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 1.76974E-4 4.5696E-15 4.5685E-15 4.5696E-19
CHLOR-01 0.0 1410.330 31.05567 24.73201 1410.330 55.78768 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 24.73204 2.41146E-5 2.41100E-5 2.41146E-9
1:2-D-01 0.0 0.0 .0479715 68.30150 0.0 1354.542 1978.645 1978.645 1978.645 1978.645 692.5146 692.5146 692.5146 692.4667 624.1652 624.1028 .0624165
VINY L-01 0.0 0.0 126.2739 1159.825 0.0 0.0 .0388072 .0388072 .0388072 .0388072 1286.137 1286.137 1286.137 1159.863 .0388143 .0388072 3.88144E-6
HY DRO-01 0.0 0.0 1286.082 .0170964 0.0 0.0 4.8555E-13 4.8555E-13 4.8555E-13 4.8555E-13 1286.099 1286.099 1286.099 .0170964 4.8565E-13 4.8555E-13 4.8565E-17
T otal Flow lbmol/ hr 1425.834 1410.330 1514.751 1252.875 2836.164 1481.622 2105.763 2105.763 2105.763 2105.763 3391.830 3391.830 3391.830 1877.079 624.2040 624.1416 .0624204
T otal Flow lb/hr 40000.00 1.00000E+5 58990.05 81000.64 1.40000E+5 1.40000E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01760E+5 2.01760E+5 2.01760E+5 1.42770E+5 61769.29 61763.12 6.176929
T otal Flow cuft/hr 2864.164 1140.140 939.1242 1465.759 1.97619E+5 1.95341E+5 2.79860E+5 2631.065 2634.088 40670.12 1.37161E+5 49631.64 3075.911 2449.481 984.7204 984.6220 .0984720
T emperature F 70.00000 70.00000 -20.54964 123.1709 -64.51863 193.7300 193.1946 76.73000 78.46242 467.3300 931.7300 252.3493 42.53000 196.4165 335.9313 335.9313 335.9313
Pressure psia 1000.000 150.0000 146.9595 110.2196 29.39190 22.04392 20.57433 42.89357 382.0947 382.0947 367.3987 367.3987 185.0152 176.3514 117.5676 117.5676 117.5676
Vapor Frac 1.000000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .4968136 .4244830 .3995547 0.0 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 .8076326 1.00000E-6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Liquid Frac 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 .5031864 .5755170 .6004453 1.000000 1.000000 0.0 0.0 .1923674 .9999990 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
Solid Frac 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Enthalpy Btu/lbmol 19553.84 -8053.968 -38891.83 295.5166 5825.397 -55606.30 -57673.71 -66235.61 -66119.01 -44960.16 -8533.796 -21669.93 -30919.85 -20876.47 -62581.45 -62581.45 -62581.45
Enthalpy Btu/lb 697.0132 -113.5875 -998.6672 4.570896 118.0127 -588.4821 -601.9295 -691.2885 -690.0715 -469.2406 -143.4635 -364.2978 -519.8001 -274.4751 -632.4113 -632.4113 -632.4113
Enthalpy Btu/hr 2.78805E+7 -1.1359E+7 -5.8911E+7 3.70246E+5 1.65218E+7 -8.2387E+7 -1.2145E+8 -1.3948E+8 -1.3923E+8 -9.4675E+7 -2.8945E+7 -7.3501E+7 -1.0487E+8 -3.9187E+7 -3.9064E+7 -3.9060E+7 -3906.359
Entropy Btu/lbmol-R -25.84701 -18.89239 -18.74604 -29.06458 -19.28060 -49.82255 -51.33251 -65.29114 -65.23677 -38.19801 -2.717942 -16.20638 -31.25507 -37.10691 -55.79582 -55.79582 -55.79582
Entropy Btu/lb-R -.9213386 -.2664450 -.4813620 -.4495557 -.3905923 -.5272726 -.5357476 -.6814312 -.6808638 -.3986653 -.0456919 -.2724489 -.5254356 -.4878661 -.5638396 -.5638396 -.5638396
Density lbmol/ cuft .4978184 1.236979 1.612940 .8547622 .0143516 7.58479E-3 7.52434E-3 .8003462 .7994278 .0517766 .0247287 .0683400 1.102707 .7663172 .6338896 .6338896 .6338896
Density lb/cuft 13.96568 87.70850 62.81389 55.26191 .7084342 .7166949 .7209427 76.68495 76.59696 4.960967 1.470968 4.065148 65.59357 58.28579 62.72775 62.72775 62.72775
Average MW 28.05376 70.90540 38.94373 64.65179 49.36245 94.49107 95.81472 95.81472 95.81472 95.81472 59.48411 59.48411 59.48411 76.05961 98.95689 98.95689 98.95689
Liq Vol 60F cuft/hr 1934.785 1149.227 1365.473 1393.103 3084.012 1864.715 2658.404 2658.404 2658.404 2658.404 3552.344 3552.344 3552.344 2186.871 793.7685 793.6892 .0793768

Table 3

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5. Question 4

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 Specification for the S-1 input for vary

Figure 31

 Specification for the S-1 input for define

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Figure 32

 Specification for the S-1 for tabulate

Figure 33

 Convergence for Question 4

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 Result for 635 kmol/hr on 0.402873 composition

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Heat and Material Balance T able

Stream ID C2H4 CL2 D1 D2 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PURGE
From B10 B11 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B6 B9 B10 B11 B12 B12
To B1 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B6 B9 B10 B11 B12 B3
Phase VAPOR LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID MIXED MIXED MIXED LIQUID LIQUID VAPOR VAPOR MIXED MIXED LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID LIQUID
Substream: MIXED
Mole Flow lbmol/hr
ET HY L-01 1425.834 0.0 71.29151 1.76974E-4 1425.834 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 71.29169 1.76974E-4 4.5696E-15 4.5685E-15 4.5696E-19
CHLOR-01 0.0 1410.330 31.05567 24.73202 1410.330 55.78768 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 55.78771 24.73204 2.41147E-5 2.41100E-5 2.41147E-9
1:2-D-01 0.0 0.0 .0479715 68.30145 0.0 1354.542 1978.645 1978.645 1978.645 1978.645 692.5142 692.5142 692.5142 692.4663 624.1648 624.1024 .0624164
VINY L-01 0.0 0.0 126.2738 1159.824 0.0 0.0 .0388071 .0388071 .0388071 .0388071 1286.137 1286.137 1286.137 1159.863 .0388143 .0388071 3.88144E-6
HY DRO-01 0.0 0.0 1286.081 .0170964 0.0 0.0 4.8555E-13 4.8555E-13 4.8555E-13 4.8555E-13 1286.098 1286.098 1286.098 .0170964 4.8565E-13 4.8555E-13 4.8565E-17
T otal Flow lbmol/hr 1425.834 1410.330 1514.750 1252.875 2836.164 1481.622 2105.763 2105.763 2105.763 2105.763 3391.828 3391.828 3391.828 1877.078 624.2036 624.1413 .0624203
T otal Flow lb/hr 40000.00 1.00000E+5 58990.01 81000.60 1.40000E+5 1.40000E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01763E+5 2.01760E+5 2.01760E+5 2.01760E+5 1.42770E+5 61769.25 61763.08 6.176925
T otal Flow cuft/hr 2864.164 1140.140 939.1237 1465.758 1.97619E+5 1.95341E+5 2.79860E+5 2631.065 2634.087 40670.11 1.37161E+5 49631.59 3075.909 2449.480 984.7198 984.6214 .0984719
T emperature F 70.00000 70.00000 -20.54964 123.1709 -64.51863 193.7300 193.1946 76.73000 78.46243 467.3300 931.7300 252.3492 42.53000 196.4165 335.9313 335.9313 335.9313
Pressure psia 1000.000 150.0000 146.9595 110.2196 29.39190 22.04392 20.57433 42.89358 382.0947 382.0947 367.3987 367.3987 185.0152 176.3514 117.5676 117.5676 117.5676
Vapor Frac 1.000000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .4968136 .4244830 .3995547 0.0 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 .8076322 1.00000E-6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Liquid Frac 0.0 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 .5031864 .5755170 .6004453 1.000000 1.000000 0.0 0.0 .1923678 .9999990 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
Solid Frac 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Enthalpy Btu/lbmol 19553.84 -8053.968 -38891.83 295.5173 5825.397 -55606.30 -57673.71 -66235.61 -66119.01 -44960.16 -8533.796 -21669.93 -30919.85 -20876.47 -62581.45 -62581.45 -62581.45
Enthalpy Btu/lb 697.0132 -113.5875 -998.6672 4.570907 118.0127 -588.4821 -601.9295 -691.2885 -690.0715 -469.2406 -143.4635 -364.2979 -519.8001 -274.4751 -632.4113 -632.4113 -632.4113
Enthalpy Btu/hr 2.78805E+7 -1.1359E+7 -5.8911E+7 3.70246E+5 1.65218E+7 -8.2387E+7 -1.2145E+8 -1.3948E+8 -1.3923E+8 -9.4675E+7 -2.8945E+7 -7.3501E+7 -1.0487E+8 -3.9187E+7 -3.9064E+7 -3.9060E+7 -3906.357
Entropy Btu/lbmol-R -25.84701 -18.89239 -18.74604 -29.06458 -19.28060 -49.82255 -51.33251 -65.29114 -65.23677 -38.19801 -2.717941 -16.20639 -31.25507 -37.10691 -55.79582 -55.79582 -55.79582
Entropy Btu/lb-R -.9213386 -.2664450 -.4813620 -.4495557 -.3905923 -.5272726 -.5357476 -.6814312 -.6808638 -.3986653 -.0456918 -.2724491 -.5254356 -.4878661 -.5638396 -.5638396 -.5638396
Density lbmol/cuft .4978184 1.236979 1.612940 .8547622 .0143516 7.58479E-3 7.52434E-3 .8003462 .7994278 .0517766 .0247287 .0683401 1.102707 .7663172 .6338896 .6338896 .6338896
Density lb/cuft 13.96568 87.70850 62.81389 55.26191 .7084342 .7166949 .7209426 76.68495 76.59696 4.960967 1.470968 4.065150 65.59357 58.28579 62.72775 62.72775 62.72775
Average MW 28.05376 70.90540 38.94373 64.65179 49.36245 94.49107 95.81472 95.81472 95.81472 95.81472 59.48411 59.48411 59.48411 76.05961 98.95689 98.95689 98.95689
Liq Vol 60F cuft/hr 1934.785 1149.227 1365.472 1393.102 3084.012 1864.715 2658.404 2658.404 2658.404 2658.404 3552.342 3552.342 3552.342 2186.870 793.7681 793.6888 .0793768

Table 4

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6. Discussion

Mole flow Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4

lbmol/hr D1 D2 D1 D2 D1 D2 D1 D2

C2H4 71.26 0.03114 71.29 0.00018 71.29 0.00017 71.29 0.00018

CL2 30.42 25.36 31.06 24.73 31.06 24.73 31.06 24.73

C2H4CL2 0 69.21 0.05 68.30 0.048 68.30 0.048 68.30

C2H3CL 128.64 1156.63 126.28 1159.85 126.27 1159.83 126.27 1159.82
HCL 1283.98 1.29 1286.11 0.02 1286.08 0.017 1286.08 0.017

TOTAL 1514.31 1252.51 1514.78 1252.90 1514.75 1252.88 1514.75 1252.88

lb/hr 59011 80982 58991 81002 58990 81000 58990 81000

From the results, the products of the VCM are not different much. The purpose of the
changes of equipment is to see the probability to get higher yield in the product and the
reduction of equipment can reduce the cost of the capital.

The optimization also can get the higher yield with the differentiation of the composition
of the recycle in the process. So the aim of the production can be maximize.

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