文摘
The minimum vapor flow method and Vmin diagram are applied to the design of a reactive dividing wall column (RDWC) in this work. A shortcut design method for the conventional dividing wall columns based on the Underwood equations has been extended by introducing a new parameter that eliminates the effects of the reaction to allow conceptual design of the RDWC. Taking the syntheses of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), and dimethyl ether (DME) as design cases, the results show that the minimum vapor flow method and the Vmin diagram can be well applied to the conceptual design of a RDWC in different reaction systems.