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Beer column: 8% ethanol to 53% (Wilson)

DistillationWilsonEthanolBeer columnActivity model
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The first column of a distillery on the Wilson equation — the oldest local-composition model, fine for a fully miscible pair like ethanol-water and unable by construction to represent a liquid-liquid split, which is why it is offered for this pair and not as a default. An 8 mol% fermenter beer, 12 stages with the feed near the top (stage 3) as a beer column is run, reflux 1, 15% distillate: 53 mol% ethanol overhead and a stillage bottoms with no ethanol left, 1.37 MW on the reboiler for 100 mol/s of beer. Ethanol-water is the one binary the package carries regressed Wilson parameters for; everything else falls back to UNIFAC.

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The solved topology — every unit op's real duty, conversion, or split, read straight off a genuine converged solve.

FEED
feed
dist
btms
Qc
Qr
COL
Distillate
Bottoms

The stream table

Every stream's flow, temperature, pressure, and composition — real converged numbers, not placeholders.

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