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This document discusses using AspenPlus software to solve chemical engineering problems involving vapor-liquid equilibrium calculations for mixtures. It provides an example problem solving for an equimolar mixture of n-pentane and n-hexane. The document shows how to use AspenPlus to calculate: a) the dew point pressure at 120°F, b) the bubble point temperature at 1 atm, and c) vapor fraction, liquid and vapor compositions at 120°F and 0.9 atm. Graphical results like pressure-composition and temperature-composition diagrams are generated to find the property values from phase equilibrium calculations.

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Exercise 2 1

This document discusses using AspenPlus software to solve chemical engineering problems involving vapor-liquid equilibrium calculations for mixtures. It provides an example problem solving for an equimolar mixture of n-pentane and n-hexane. The document shows how to use AspenPlus to calculate: a) the dew point pressure at 120°F, b) the bubble point temperature at 1 atm, and c) vapor fraction, liquid and vapor compositions at 120°F and 0.9 atm. Graphical results like pressure-composition and temperature-composition diagrams are generated to find the property values from phase equilibrium calculations.

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Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Roland Dittmeyer


Karl-Winnacker-Institut der DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt am Main
Summer 2003

Exercise 2.1.

For an equimolar solution of n-pentane and n-hexane compute:


a. The dew-point pressure at 120°F

To solve this problem with AspenPlus, the Pxy-Diagramm is calculated.

General suggestions:
- Create a flowsheet simulation
- Select “general with English units”
- Define n-pentane and n-hexane as components
- Select “NRTL” as property method (base method)

Open Tools/Analysis/Property/Binary and select the Pxy-diagram as “Analysis type”. Fill in


the demanded temperature (120°F) and start the calculation by pressing “GO”.
P-xy for N-PENTAN/N-HEXAN
1.8

P-x 120.0 F
1.7

P-y 120.0 F
1.6
1.5
1.4
1.1 1.2 1.3
Pressure atm
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1


Liquid/Vapor Molefrac N-PENTAN

Fig. 1: Pxy diagramm for a mixture of n-pentane and n-hexane


From the Diagramm we can read the dew-point pressure. At the given composition of 0.5 the
dew-point-Line (green Line) shows us a dew-point pressure of around 0.75 atm.
b. The bubble-point temperature at 1 atm

To solve this problem with AspenPlus, the Txy-Diagram is calculated.

All we have to do is select the Txy-Diagramm in the “Binary Analysis” window as analysis
type, and specify the pressure (1atm). Running the analysis by pressing “GO” leads to the
following diagram.
T-xy for N-PENTAN/N-HEXAN
160

T-x 1.0 atm


T-y 1.0 atm
150
140 130
Temperature F
120 110
100
90

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1


Liquid/Vapor Molefrac N-PENTAN

Fig. 2: Txy diagramm for a mixture of n-pentane and n-hexane


The bubble-point temperature at 1atm for an equimolar solution of n-pentane and n-hexane is
120°F.

c. The vapour fraction, at 120°F and 0.9 atm, and the mole fractions of the vapour liquid
phases

To solve this problem with AspenPlus, the phase equilibrium at given conditions is calculated.

General suggestions:
Introduce and connect the components of the flowsheet (Fig. 3):
- the feed stream
- a flash (Flash2) with two outlet streams
- the outlet streams top and bottom
TOP

FLASH
FEED

BOTTOM

Fig. 3: Flowsheet for the calculation of the phase equilibrium

Specific suggestions:
Feed: specify a flow rate and suitable conditions for the n-pentane/n-hexane mixture (e.g.
total flow 100lbmol/hr, Mole-Frac 0.5 for n-pentane and n-hexane, 120°F, 1 atm)

Flash: Fill in the temperature (120°F) and the pressure (0.9atm)

With these settings the calculations can be done. The Stream results are:

FEED TOP BOTTOM

Temperature F 120 120 120


Pressure psi 14,7 13,23 13,23
Vapor Frac 0 1 0
Mole Flow lbmol/hr 100 37,372 62,628
Mass Flow lb/hr 7916,372 2873,377 5042,995
Volume Flow cuft/hr 204,028 17577,007 128,953
Enthalpy MMBtu/hr -7,793 -2,417 -4,945
Mole Flow lbmol/hr
N-PENTAN 50 24,756 25,244
N-HEXANE 50 12,616 37,384
Mole Frac
N-PENTAN 0,5 0,662 0,403
N-HEXANE 0,5 0,338 0,597
Fig. 4: Result summary

The vapor fraction in the Flash is: 0.37372.

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