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Ethanol-water heat-and-flash (Van Laar)

FlashVan LaarEthanolActivity modelTeaching
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The simplest separation there is, on the simplest activity model that still gets a non-ideal pair right: a 40 mol% ethanol-water stream heated to 356 K at 1 atm and flashed adiabatically, on the two-constant Van Laar equation — the oldest of the family, temperature-independent, cheap to fit from a single azeotrope point. What it computes: 55% of the feed vaporizes at 356 K, the vapour at 54 mol% ethanol against 22% left in the liquid, on 2.75 MW of preheat. Ethanol-water is the one pair the package carries regressed constants for; other pairs fall 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
HEAT
DRUM
Vapor
Liquid

The stream table

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

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