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Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2013, 52 (29), pp 9922–9929.
Fernando Israel Gómez-Castro, Mario Alberto Rodríguez-Ángeles , Juan Gabriel Segovia−Hernández , Salvador Hernández , Claudia Gutiérrez-Antonio , Abel Briones-Ramírez , andAgustín Ramón Uribe Ramírez.
Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus Guanajuato, División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Noria Alta S/N Col. Noria Alta, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México 36050 and
Instituto Tecnológico Sanmiguelense, Calle Escuadrón 201 No. 10, Palmita de Landeta Km. 0.5, Carretera San Miguel-Dr. Mora, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México 37748 and
CIATEQ, A.C., Av. Manantiales 23A Parque Industrial Bernardo Quintana, El Marqués, Querétaro, México 76000 and
Exxerpro Solutions, Av. del Sol 1B Local 4B, Plaza Comercial El Sol, Col. El Sol, Querétaro, Querétaro, México 76113.
Abstract
Dividing wall columns are intensified process equipment with the capacity of reducing both capital and operational costs for a given vapor–liquid separation, when compared with conventional distillation sequences. For some kinds of mixtures, distillation systems with two dividing walls have been theoretically proved to present lower energy requirements and lower total annual costs than systems with a single dividing wall. Nevertheless, the use of an additional wall may lead to operational issues on the column, because of the more complex arrangement of the walls on the trays of the columns, where additional split of the vapor and liquid streams is expected. Thus, in this work the open-loop properties (minimum singular value and condition number) for the double dividing wall column are studied and compared with those of the dividing wall column for a wide range of frequencies, in order to determinate if the use of additional dividing walls may lead to potential control problems. It has been found that both systems show similar dynamic performance, with advantages for the double dividing wall column for mixtures with low composition of the middle-boiling component.
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