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    Overall Flowsheet Simulation Benzene Cyclohexane TW6

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    This document summarizes a simulation of cyclohexane production from benzene and hydrogen. Benzene and hydrogen feeds are mixed and heated before entering a reactor where 99.8% of the benzene is converted to cyclohexane. The reactor output is separated into overhead and bottoms streams. A distillation column with 9 trays is used to purify the cyclohexane to 99.99% from the bottoms stream. The simulation had to be run step-by-step and with increased tolerance and iterations to converge due to the recycling involved in the process.

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    This document summarizes a simulation of cyclohexane production from benzene and hydrogen. Benzene and hydrogen feeds are mixed and heated before entering a reactor where 99.8% of the benzene is converted to cyclohexane. The reactor output is separated into overhead and bottoms streams. A distillation column with 9 trays is used to purify the cyclohexane to 99.99% from the bottoms stream. The simulation had to be run step-by-step and with increased tolerance and iterations to converge due to the recycling involved in the process.

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    This document summarizes a simulation of cyclohexane production from benzene and hydrogen. Benzene and hydrogen feeds are mixed and heated before entering a reactor where 99.8% of the benzene is converted to cyclohexane. The reactor output is separated into overhead and bottoms streams. A distillation column with 9 trays is used to purify the cyclohexane to 99.99% from the bottoms stream. The simulation had to be run step-by-step and with increased tolerance and iterations to converge due to the recycling involved in the process.

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    Overall Flowsheet Simulation Benzene Cyclohexane TW6

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    This document summarizes a simulation of cyclohexane production from benzene and hydrogen. Benzene and hydrogen feeds are mixed and heated before entering a reactor where 99.8% of the benzene is converted to cyclohexane. The reactor output is separated into overhead and bottoms streams. A distillation column with 9 trays is used to purify the cyclohexane to 99.99% from the bottoms stream. The simulation had to be run step-by-step and with increased tolerance and iterations to converge due to the recycling involved in the process.

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    Termwork 6- Cyclohexane production simulation

    Production of cyclohexane by the reaction:- Benzene + 3hydrogen =


    Cyclohexane

    Feed line 1 feed line 3


    Benzene 100 Hydrogen 330
    100% kmol/h 93% kmol/h
    40°C Nitrogen 2% 50°C
    methane
    1 bar 5% 25 bar

    99.99% purity of cyclohexane is recovered after distillation from bottoms


    Simulation :-

    Initially, all of the components involved are added.

    Defining benzene and hydrogen feed lines

    As the process has a recycle involved, it is simulated after each step of adding an equipment.

    In the flowsheet firstly, the benzene (line1) and mixed hydrogen streams (line 3) for the sake of
    mixing are added to a mixer which is then fed to heater via line 2. (It was done only till the mixer
    part, the diagram only shows excess components)

    The outlet of the combined streams is assumed to be at 24 bar.


    The output of heat exchanger is set at 150 °C and a pressure drop of 1 bar.

    Rstoic reactor is selected in which only the conversion of benzene = 99.8% is specified. The reaction
    conditions are fed in alongwith reaction stoichiometry.
    The output of reactor has the following compositions.

    A separation column is added thereafter as shown with following output

    The image above shows input parameters of the distillation column. Two separators are added. Line
    13 is a purge line having 1% of the feed to separator (line 7).The loop is step by step completed by
    connecting lines 12 & 15 with the initial mixer.
    On completing the loop and simulating there was a convergence error. For countering this number
    of iterations and tolerance were increased accordingly.

    Finally a distillation column is added specifying the final product requirements and the
    reflux ratio (=3). The feed to it is as shown above.
    Distillation column parameter specifications

    Final product stream of cyclohexane is obtained with required purity.

    Summary :- In the above exercise we simulated a complete process having a mixer,


    heat exchanger, separators, reactors and distillation columns. We also came to know that
    loop operations need to be simulated step by step and not whole at once. The tolerance had
    to be increased and so had to be the number of iterations for the results to converge.
    Around 9 trays were required for the distillation column which is well justified and practical
    as well.

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