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Perry Ch.13 Example 3: butane/pentane splitter

DistillationLPG fractionationTextbookPerry's Handbook
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A simple two-cut distillation splitting butane overhead from pentane bottoms, from Chapter 13 of Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook.

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
Butane
Pentane

The stream table

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

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