Senstivity & Optimization Analysis of Stripper Column

Objective: Distillate should have below C9 components and should not contain C10 and higher components Defining Variables: Variable Name DISTIL C9 C10 Description Mole Flow rate of Distillate Mole Flow rate of C9 in Distillate Mole Flow rate of C10 in Distillate Units kmol/hr kmol/hr kmol/hr

Aim: To ensure more than 95% of C9 and less than 5% C10 of feed goes to Distillate Tolerance of 5% 95% of C9 in Feed 5% of C10 in Feed 13.66 0.82

To Vary: DISTIL from 0.015 kmol/hr to 0.025 kmol/hr in 10 steps Results of Senstivity Analysis as exported from Aspen Plus VARY 1 STRIPPER COL-SPEC MOLE-D KMOL/HR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 15.00 16.11 17.22 18.33 19.44 20.33 20.56 21.67 22.78 23.89 25.00 Result: Run 6 & Run 7 Satisfy our Criteria

Run

C10 KMOL/HR 0.08 0.10 0.13 0.18 0.30 0.59 0.73 1.59 2.60 3.65 4.71

C9 KMOL/HR 8.99 10.07 11.15 12.21 13.20 13.79 13.89 14.13 14.22 14.27 14.30

Senstivity & Optimization Analysis of Stripper Column

Objective: To find minimum Number of Stages so that Distillate should have below C9 components and should not contain C10 and higher components Basis: 20.3 kmol/hr of DISTIL Defining Variables: Variable Name STAGE DISTIL C9 C10 Description Number of Stages of Stripper Mole Flow Rate of Distillate Mole Flow rate of C9 in Distillate Mole Flow rate of C10 in Distillate Units kmol/hr kmol/hr kmol/hr

Aim: To ensure more than 95% of C9 and less than 5% C10 of feed goes to Distillate Tolerance of 5% 95% of C9 in Feed 5% of C10 in Feed To Vary: STAGE from 20 to 50 in steps of 5 Run 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 VARY STRIPPER STAGE 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 C10 KMOL/HR 2.0607 1.3325 0.9588 0.5926 0.4151 0.2564 0.1774 C9 KMOL/HR 12.2011 13.0253 13.4204 13.7897 13.9681 14.1269 14.2059 13.66 0.82

Result: Run 4 Satisfies our Minimum Criteria

Basis: Run 6 of Sensitivity Analysis and Number of Stages = 35