Reactive Distillation blog contains following
- History
- Principle
- Conventional Process
- MTBE Production Using Reactive Distillation
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Application
History
• Reactive distillation technique first applied for the recovery of ammonia in the classic solvey process during 1860s.
• Then in 1920s esterification process using homogeneous liquid phase catalyst comes into the picture.
• In 1970s, manufacturing of MTBE using hetrogeneous catalyst comes into the consideration.
Principle
• LeChatelier's law:-
For the reaction in equilibrium, if any change in any process variables like temperature, pressure or composition of reaction mass is made, reaction move in such a direction which will nullify the change.
A+B <--> C+D
Conventional Process
ɑc = 8, ɑa = 4, ɑb = 2, ɑd= 1
MTBE Production Using Reactive Distillation
(1) Water scrubber
(2) Reactor
(3) Reactive Distillation column
(4) Absorber
(5) Stripper
