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Methanol-water column at 10 atm (PR + Huron-Vidal)

DistillationHuron-VidalGᴱ mixing ruleMethanolHigh pressure
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A methanol-water column at 10 atm on Peng-Robinson with the original Huron-Vidal (1979) infinite-pressure Gᴱ mixing rule, driven by the fitted methanol/water NRTL binary. 30 mol% feed, 16 stages, reflux 2, 30% distillate: 96.2 mol% methanol overhead, 1.6% in the bottoms, 3.4 MW on the reboiler at 452 K. The point is the pressure: at 10 atm a gamma-phi activity model is at the edge of its ~10 bar envelope, and a cubic with a Gᴱ rule carries no such ceiling. Bound, as the package's own description says: Huron-Vidal wants activity parameters regressed at infinite pressure, and these are the low-pressure DECHEMA ones, so treat the split as the rule's reading of that binary rather than a validated high-pressure number (the SRK + NeqSim card is the one with parameters fitted for the rule).

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
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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