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n-Hexane / 1-butanol column with no fitted binary (UNIFAC)

DistillationUNIFACPredictiveAzeotropeSolvent recovery
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A binary the databank has no regressed NRTL parameters for, so the column runs on predictive original UNIFAC from the two molecules' groups alone: 50/50 n-hexane and 1-butanol, 20 stages, reflux 2, 45% distillate. UNIFAC predicts the minimum-boiling azeotrope at 97 mol% hexane and 341.7 K, and the column lands its distillate exactly there (96.7%) with an 88% butanol bottoms — the azeotrope, not the stage count, is what caps the overhead purity, and that is a prediction from group contributions with no data on this pair behind it. Read it as a screening result: original UNIFAC's mean error against fitted binaries in this tree is 0.08 in ln gamma, and an alkane/alcohol pair is in its well-behaved range.

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The stream table

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

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