 Karr Column agitation

 Acid Base Reaction

 50% naoh
 need to keep between 20% and 50%- NaOh
 purification of organic chemicals perin
 water wants to be in an ionic solution as opposed to organic solvents
 need to figure out how much pyridine is left in aqueous phase and how much is left in organic
phase
 use CAS number for xylene given
 parameters for sizing
o find any organic to use instead of pyridine
 Need to assume SF ratio and KD  Seader Example
 pressure swing distillation
 water (polar) clusters around ions
 size settler  residence time
o decanters and settler
 pyridine is close to benzene and toluene
 pp. 773---Plant design book (design of decanter)
 xylene---activated carbon filter out
 5 independent ternary diagrams
 ideal liquid, assume they are immiscible and simplify it down
 how to size a liq liq column, in terms of efficiency- find efficiency of column
 ignore TMV and work out size of column reverse engineering
 remove 99.4 % water- work out equilibrium coefficient
o whats the efficiency of staging  flowrates
 what is the efficiency of a karr column (additional power requirements for mechanical agitation)
 don’t need to use aspen if you consider components are immiscible with each other (NRTL will
not work)
 for Aspen use UNIFAC
 use engineering heuristics to move forward
 don’t need to back up assumptions
 not about how you got to answers, technical write for your manager
 outline uncertainties