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Multicomponent packed column distillation is simulated using a rate-based model and the simulation results are compared with the experimental results obtained from a 0.2 m diameter pilot-scale packed column. The simulation algorithm used is previously proposed by the authors, which based on an equation-tearing method for (6c+7) equations of one packing segment and the whole column is solved by an iterative segmentwise calculation with the overall normalized θ method for acceleration. The performance of two packings is examined by simulating the pilot-scale column experiments using the published correlations for estimating liquid and vapor phase mass transfer coefficients and an effective interfacial area.
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Lee, Y.S., Kim, M.G., Ha, D.M. et al. Analysis of packed distillation columns with a rate-based model. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 14, 321–324 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02707046
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