Chemical Process Design (Important Questions)

1. What is the effect on the multicomponent distillation when the pressure increases maintaining
the split fractions?
2. What variable would you change, to reduce the vaporization of too much solvent in the gas
stream of an absorption unit?
3. What are the design criteria to use partial instead of total condenser in a distillation column?
4. In order to increase the production in a process, with a pressurized gas recycle, which of the
following changes would you choose & why?
a) Change the Gas recycle; b) Change the rest of the system; c) Both (a) & (b).
5. In a ‘HENS’, when you change the ΔTmin in an exchanger, is it always necessary to reduce the
heat load in this heat exchanger?
6. Is the two steps approach HENS better than the global optimization in one step?
7. Is it possible that more than two pinch points are encountered in a heat exchange network?

Regards,

M. Waqas Manzoor.
Process Engineer