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    Production of Maleic Anhydride From Benzene: Background

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    This document describes the production of maleic anhydride from benzene. Benzene and oxygen are reacted over a vanadium and molybdenum oxide catalyst to produce maleic anhydride, carbon dioxide, and water. Maleic anhydride is absorbed using dibutyl phthalate as a solvent, then separated. Asia Pacific is the largest market for maleic anhydride due to growth in end use industries. Process simulation software was used to model the process and obtain output parameters like temperatures, pressures, and mass flow rates.

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    This document describes the production of maleic anhydride from benzene. Benzene and oxygen are reacted over a vanadium and molybdenum oxide catalyst to produce maleic anhydride, carbon dioxide, and water. Maleic anhydride is absorbed using dibutyl phthalate as a solvent, then separated. Asia Pacific is the largest market for maleic anhydride due to growth in end use industries. Process simulation software was used to model the process and obtain output parameters like temperatures, pressures, and mass flow rates.

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    This document describes the production of maleic anhydride from benzene. Benzene and oxygen are reacted over a vanadium and molybdenum oxide catalyst to produce maleic anhydride, carbon dioxide, and water. Maleic anhydride is absorbed using dibutyl phthalate as a solvent, then separated. Asia Pacific is the largest market for maleic anhydride due to growth in end use industries. Process simulation software was used to model the process and obtain output parameters like temperatures, pressures, and mass flow rates.

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    Production of Maleic Anhydride from benzene

    by-SANCHIT BADODEKAR
    DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
    VNIT NAGPUR

    BACKGROUND
    Maleic anhydride is an important raw materials used in the manufacture of phthalic-
    type alkyd and polyester resins, surface coatings, lubricant additives, plasticizers
    (qv), copolymers (qv), and agricultural chemicals Asia-Pacific is the largest as well as
    the fastest-growing market for maleic anhydride, whereas, North America and Europe
    are the second and third largest markets. The rapid growth in the end use industries,
    improved standard of living, and strong foothold of the major market players are the
    key factors driving growth of maleic anhydride market in Asia-Pacific.

    PROCESS DESCRIPTION

    Main reaction: Benzene + Oxygen —> Maleic Anhydride + carbon dioxide + water
    catalyst : vanadium and molybdenum oxide mixture on an inert support
    benzene is vaporised in heat exchanger E601 and then mixed with compressed
    air .the mixture is sent to fired heater to heat the feed to desired temperature inlet
    conditions.the reaction is highly exothermic and hence ration of air to benzene in the
    feed mixture is kept high.conversion reactor is used to convert benzene into maleic
    anhydride and combustion products .the unreacted benzene ,maleic anhydride and
    combustion products are cooled and sent to absorption tower (compound separator)
    for separation of combustion gases and product an organic solvent (dibutyl phthalate)
    is used to absorb maleic anhydride into it .The down product is sent to the separation
    tower to further separate malice anhydride and dibutyl phthalate.crude malice
    anhydride is sent further for purification , dibutyl phthalate is recycled back to the
    absorption tower with makeup stream to balance losses .
    Peng-Robinson thermodynamics model is employed in this flowsheet.
    the following points where considered while creating the flowsheet :

    1. pure air was considered using a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen in


    stochiometric proportions .
    2. all side reactions were ignored .
    3. the reactor operation used is based upon conversion of benzene and the outlet
    temperature of reactor.
    4. the liquid outlet stream of conversion reactor is closed as no product is in liquid
    state at such high temperature only vapour is present .
    5. the absorber is simulated using compound separator specifying bottom stream.
    6. the fired heater is considered to be 100% efficient to make calculations under
    tolerance limit.
    7. dibutyl phthalate is a user defined compound added from online library to the
    simulation.
    8. the data given in Turton ed al, 2013 was used as a basis to create the flowsheet
    and confirm the results from DWSIM.

    RESULTS OBTAINED:

    parameter unit input input output output

    benzene air maleic waste gases


    anhydride

    temperature K 303.15 303.15 468.75 463.745

    pressure KPa 101.325 101.325 80 82

    mass flow kg/s 0.9178 22.358 0.67 22.6139

    volumetric metric cube/s 0.0010576 19.2679 0.00056 36.3888


    flow

    molar flow mol/s 11.75 775 10.096 774.423


    rates in
    mixture

    benzene 11.75 0 0 0.705

    oxygen 0 162.5 0 112.796

    nitrogen 0 612.5 0 612.501

    maleic 0 0 10.096 0.13


    anhydride

    carbon dioxide 0 0 0 22.09

    dibutyl 0 0 1.00959E-05 0.0277


    pthalate

    water 0 0 0 22.0863

    REFERENCES :
    Analysis Synthesis and Design of Chemical Processes- third edition Richard Turton.
    Richard C. Bailie. Wallace B /appendix B-production of maleic anhydride using
    benzene.

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