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Industrial i-butane/n-butane splitter

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A close-boiling isobutane/n-butane splitter as reported by Klemola and Ilme (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1996, 35, 4579) — the relative volatility between the two isomers is small (~1.3), so the column needs many stages and a high reflux ratio for a sharp split, unlike the wider-boiling LPG splits elsewhere in this library.

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FEED
feed
dist
btms
COL
Isobutane
Nbutane

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