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Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation

AzeotropicThree-phaseDecanterEntrainer
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An n-hexane entrainer carries water overhead as a ternary heteroazeotrope; the condensed overhead splits in a three-phase flash into an organic layer and an aqueous layer, while dry ethanol leaves in the bottoms — the three-phase separation ordinary distillation cannot do.

The flowsheet

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

FEED
feed
dist
btms
COL
vap
liq1
liq2
COND
Ethanol
Organic
Aqueous
VENT

The stream table

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

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