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Distillation UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH Dr.

RUSUL NASEER MOHAMMED

University of Basrah
College of Engineering
Chemical Engineering Department

Distillation
By

Ass.prof . Dr. Rusul Naseer Mohammed

Third year B.Sc ( 2020- 2021)


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1 . Definition
In distillation (fractionation), a feed mixture of two or more component is separated into two or more
products, including, and often limited to an overhead distillate and a bottoms, whose compositions differ from
that of the feed. Most often, the feed is a liquid or vapor – liquid mixture. The bottoms products is almost
always a liquid, but the distillate may be a liquid or a vapor or both. The separation requires that (1) a second
phase be formed so that both liquid and vapor phases are present and can contact each other on each stage
within a separation column, (2) the components have different volatilities so that they will partition between
the two phases to different extents, and (3) the two phases can be separated by gravity or other mechanical
means. Distillation differs from absorption and stripping in that the second phase is created by thermal means
(vaporization and condensation) rather than by the introduction of a second phase that usually contains an
additional component or component not present in the feed mixture.

A- Distillation of binary mixtures

Binary Mixture: mixture contains only two components differ in boiling point. Equipment and Design
Consideration Industrial distillation operations are most commonly conducted in trayed towers, but packed
columns are finding increasing use. Occasionally, distillation columns contain both trays and packing. Types
of trays and packing are identical to those used for absorption and stripping.
A schematic diagram for the distillation column for binary mixture is presented below.

Factors that influence the design or analysis of a binary distillation operation include:
1. Feed flow rate, composition, temperature, pressure, and phase condition.
2. Desired degree of separation between two components.
3. Operating pressure (which must be below the critical pressure of the mixture).
4. Vapor pressure drop, particularly for vacuum operation.
5. Minimum reflux ratio and actual reflux ratio.
6. Minimum number of equilibrium stages and actual number of equilibrium stages (stage
efficiency).
7. Type of condenser (total, partial, or mixed).
8. Degree of sub-cooling, if any, of the liquid reflux.
9. Type of re-boiler (partial or total).
10. Type of contacting (trays or packing or both).
11. Height of the column.
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Equilibrium Relationships
Experimental data have been published for several thousand binary and many multicomponent Systems.
The equilibrium relationship between yA and xA can be obtained by two methods either in terms of the
relative volatility (αAB), or using the vapor pressure.
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Example (1)
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