Evaporation and distillation - Separation by single-stage partial evaporation - Flash distillation

9 important questions on Evaporation and distillation - Separation by single-stage partial evaporation - Flash distillation

What is flash evaporation?

Flash evaporation is a single-stage equilibrium distillation in which the feed is first pressurized before entering the flash drum.

Which two types of flash evaporation are there?

Adiabatical or isothermal

Which mass balances are there for flash evaporation?

The component mass balance for the most volatile compound and the overall mass balance.
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Considering flash evaportation what correlations can be used to express y?

and

How does isothermal flash work?

In isothermal flash no valve is used.
A specific temperature is set. Then one option is to set the liquid-vapor ratio.
The other option is to set the total pressure.

How is the fraction feed remaining liquid (q) defined?

used instead of the vapor-liquid ratio

How can the equilibrium benzene mole  fraction be determined from this picture?

The equilibrium line is obtained from:
The operating lines are defined as:
The intersection points give the vapor and liquid composition.

What three boundary conditions can be defined when specifying T and Ptot for an isothermic flash evaporation?

1. The feed composition must fall between xeq and yeq.
2. 0<q<1
3.

Combining with the boundary condition , what does the equation for a multicomponent mixture become?

solving for q and calculating xi and yi.

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