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Batch Distillation Practice

The document describes two batch distillation practices. The first practice involves distilling a 100 kmol benzene-toluene mixture until a 30 mole% residue is obtained. Using the relative volatility and Rayleigh equation with an average constant relative volatility, the amount of distillate obtained and its benzene content can be calculated. The second practice involves a similar distillation but the details are not provided.

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Batch Distillation Practice

The document describes two batch distillation practices. The first practice involves distilling a 100 kmol benzene-toluene mixture until a 30 mole% residue is obtained. Using the relative volatility and Rayleigh equation with an average constant relative volatility, the amount of distillate obtained and its benzene content can be calculated. The second practice involves a similar distillation but the details are not provided.

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Batch Distillation Practice

Two practices
Practice 1
100 kmol of a 60 mole% benzene–toluene mixture is subjected to batch distillation
until a 30 mole% residue is obtained.

How many kg of distillate is obtained, and what is its benzene content?

(Also solve the problem using relative volatility, average α)


Solution using average relative volatility Relative volatility at the beginning of the
distillation:

at the end of the distillation:

If we may consider the relative volatility as constant, the best estimation is to


take the average of the calculated values α0 and α1 :
a more exact estimation may be achieved if we perform the same calculations for
several point:

Rayleigh-equation using constant relative volatility:


Practice 2

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