UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN KIMIA

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY IV
(CPE613)

NAME : MOHAMMAD AMIRUL ASSYRAF

MOHAMMAD NOOR
STUDENT I.D : 2012805802
EXPERIMENT : AN ACYCLIC PROCESS
DATE PERFORMED : 28/10/2014
SEMESTER :5
PROGRAM : EH220
SUBMIT TO : MDM NORASMAH MOHAMMED MANSHOR

No. Title Allocated Marks (%) Marks

1 Procedure 10
2 Process Flow Diagram (PFD) 20
3 Workbook/Stream Summary 30
4 Questions & Discussions 40
TOTAL MARKS 100

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1.0 PROCEDURE

1.1 The experiment was using iCON software.

1.2 The New Project button was selected to start a new iCON case.
1.3 When iCON was activated an initialization, the property package window as shown
in Figure A was prompted.

Figure 1

1) To activate the property package (Referring to Figure 1):

i. All Property Package was selected from the Chemical System Categories to
enable all possible property packages.
ii. The desired Thermodynamic Model was selected. For this problem, Advance
Peng-Robinson was chosen from the Thermodynamic Model drop-down list.
iii. Hit the Apply button to acknowledge the selection.

Adding Components:

1) The Components tab was clicked on to add the components. On the Pure Compound
Search tab, the n-Haptane, Hydrogen and Toluene was added to the system.
2) To add the necessary components:
i. Type the component’s name or formula (n-Haptane, Hydrogen and Toluene) in
the Compound box.
 ii. From the given list of available components of similar name, double click the
required components.
iii. This will automatically send the selected components to the Selected Compounds
box.
3) The Apply button was clicked to acknowledge the selection without leaving the
thermodynamics property package environment.
4) Leaved the thermodynamics property package environment by clicked the OK button.

Building the Simulation:

 The VisioPFD method was chosen in order to develop the model by creating and
connecting by using the unit operations icons from the stencil palette.

STEP 1: Draw the S1. Double click on the stream to rename it to S1 and fill the
information in the Material Box with the temperature 65 . The composition of n-
hepatane is 1.0. Key in also the flow rate of the mixtures which 100Ibmole/hr. Click
enters to go to the next step.

Figure 2
STEP 2: The heater was chosen to connect with the Stream 1

Figure 3

STEP 3: Draw the S2. Double click on the stream to rename it to S2 and fill the
information in the Material Box with the temperature 800 .. Key in also the flow rate of
the mixtures which 100Ibmole/hr. Click enters to go to the next step.

Figure 4
STEP 4: conversion reactor was selected to connect it with the Stream 2. In main data
key in the value of conversion to 0.15 then go to next step.

Figure 5
STEP 5 : No information was added at the S3.

Figure 6
STEP 6: The cooler was selected, E2 to get connected to the S3. The temperature was set
at 65 and the outlet stream was S4.

Figure 7

STEP 7: No information was added at the S4.

Figure 8
STEP 8 : The separator was chosen to connect with the S4.

Figure 9

STEP 9: No information was added at the S5 and S6.

Figure 10
Figure 11
2.0 PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM
3.0 QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

3.1 What is the phase of n-haptane at the inlet and outlet of the heater.
The phase of n-haptane at the inlet and outlet of the heater were liquid and gas
respectively.
3.2 What is the mole fraction for each component after conversion of 15% of n-haptane.
n-Haptane = 0.53125
hydrogen = 0.3750
toluene = 0.09375
3.3 What is the phase and temperature of separator feed stream.
Liquid and temperature was 65
3.4 Determine the mole fraction for each component at the outlet of the separator.
Stream 5
n-haptane = 0.03792
hydrogen = 0.95677
toluene = 0.00531
stream 6
n-haptane = 0.8488
hydrogen = 0.00052
toluene = 0.15068

In this experiment, toluene was produced from n-heptane by dehydrogenation. The objective of
this experiment is to install and converged a conversion reactor. Another aim for this experiment
is to simulate a process involving reaction and separation. The inlet stream was n-heptane which
undergoes varies of process to produce toluene. It has to go through a reboiler, a conversion
reactor, a condenser and a separator. A reboiler was set to increase a feed stream temperature to
800 ˚F. Temperature outlet at condenser was varies in order to achieved 96% of conversion at the
end of the process.

RECOMMENDATION
1. Make sure to set the correct reaction in iCON.
2. Make sure to connect the correct stream to the equipment.
3. Used the right fluid packing in order to get the desired product.
4. Make sure to used consistence unit in the calculation.
5. Make sure to insert the right value in each unit operation and on the feed stream.