Feasibility of Batch Reactive Distillation with Equilibrium-Limited Consecutive Reactions in Rectifier, Stripper, or Middle-Vessel Column

Table 7

Parameters of the simulations with ProSimBatch.

Simulation #	1	2	3	4	5
R	∞	∞	5	∞	5
S	∞	∞	∞	10	10
𝐹𝑑/𝑉	0	0.3	0.2	0	0.2
𝐹𝑤/𝐿	0	0	0	0.3	0.3
𝑁rect	30	30	30	30	30
𝑁upperext	16	16	16	16	16
𝑁strip	10	10	10	10	10
𝑁lowerext	10	10	10	10	10
𝑄cond	4880 W	4880 W	4880 W	1035 W	1035 W
𝑄reboil	1020 W	1020 W	1020 W	5180 W	5180 W
Hold-up (tray)	0.35 mol	0.35 mol	0.35 mol	30 cm^3	30 cm^3
Hold-up (MV)	350 mol	350 mol	350 mol	3000 cm^3	3000 cm^3
Charge	4000 mol	4000 mol	4000 mol	5125 cm^3	5125 cm^3