Mathematical Modeling and Simulation for Production of MTBE

Chapter One Introduction
include four-component systems with a single reaction and quarterly systems
with a kinetically controlled reaction which are taken for ETBE and MTBE.
1.5 SCOPE OF THIS WORK:
The main objectives of the present study include the following:
1. Studying the feasibility of the reactive distillation due to study of the non
reacting residue curve map and then with reaction for two oxygenates methyl
tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE).
2. Development of a steady state model for the reactive distillation of MTBE
and ETBE.
3. Establishment developed and generalized program to solve the model
equations which can be used as a basis for reactive distillation design
concepts, by performing the mass and energy balances around the reactive
distillation column.
4. Studying the effects of process variables, and selection of the best values of
variables of MTBE and ETBE produced by reactive distillation.
RESIDUE CURVE MAP:
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