PLANT DESIGN

WORKSHOP No. 1

Delivered by:
Liney Vannesa Castro Ortiz
Luis Camilo Martinez Tamara

Delivered to:
José A. Colina Márquez

7th semester

University of Cartagena
Chemical Engineering Program
BLOCK DIAGRAM
PROCESS FLOWSHEET DIAGRAM (PFD)
 PROCESS DESCRIPTION
The process starts in a catalytic reactor that operates at 350 °C and 5 atm pressure,
where the reagents A and B enter in gaseous phase, producing 25% of C, 10% of
D, 5% of E, 15% of F and 15% of G; the conversion of the reactor is not 100%
therefore, there will also be amounts of A and B in the product, 20% and 10%
respectively. The product you want to obtain is C, for this reason you must equip
processes to separate this product from the others and improve its conversion to an
amount greater than 90%.
It is deduced that the products come out at 350 °C from reactor 1; and knowing the
characteristics of each of the components at room temperature and 1 atm of
pressure, we place an exchanger in order to reduce the temperature of the products
to 90°C and then separate in a tank the liquids (A, B, C, E, F) and the gases (D and
G). Knowing that D is highly soluble in water, the gases pass to an absorption column
to separate D and G, where D goes with the water and then proceeds to enter a
distillation tower 3 to separate water and the product D, this passes to a catalytic
hydrogenation to produce 80% of C and 20% of D, which would be separated in a
distillation column 4, recirculating D to Hydrogenation; Obtaining C as the desired
product. The resulting product G from the Absorption Column passes to a reactor 2.
From the separation tank there is a flow in which the components A, B, C, E and F
are located, which pass to a distillation tower (1), which, due to the difference in
boiling points, obtains two flows, a first flow with components A and C, and a second
flow with components B, E and F. From the flow where A and C are found, it is known
that A is highly soluble in water for this reason, a liquid-liquid extraction is carried
out, from where C will come out, which is our product of interest; A and water would
pass to a vacuum distillation 2 to control the temperatures, the resulting product A
passes to reactor 2.
From distillation tower 1 a flow with components B, E and F comes out, which passes
to distillation tower 2, from where the by-product E of the process comes out, and
components B and F pass to a vacuum distillation tower 1 to control temperatures
and separate B and F, where B is recirculated to reactor 1 and F passes to reactor
2. In reactor 2 enter A, F and G to produce C and D, this reactor obtains a conversion
of 70%, therefore, in the product there will be compounds of A, F and G, which leads
us to return the outflow to the exchanger to separate the components. This would
increase the conversion of C as it would be a series reactor system.