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Light ends, three real columns in a row

An ethane/propane/butane/pentane feed cut into four near-pure products across a deethanizer, depropanizer and debutanizer at three different pressures.

Three cascaded rigorous MESH columns, genuinely connectedDeethanizer → depropanizer → debutanizer at three pressuresFrom the ChemSep casebook (light-ends fractionation)
Saturated gas feed
Deethanizer
Ethane
Depropanizer
Propane
Debutanizer
n-Butane
n-Pentane

The actual dark-mode canvas: an ethane/propane/butane/pentane feed cut into four near-pure products across three columns at three different pressures — the same P&ID symbols you edit in the app.

A genuinely wide-boiling train

Each column solves its own MESH equations and each one's bottoms is literally the next one's feed, so a spec change in the deethanizer propagates all the way to the pentane bottoms. Honesty note: the deethanizer and debutanizer both land in the documented successive-substitution residual plateau — a physically correct, sharp separation just above the strict tolerance — rather than a clean converged status.

Ln1+Vn+1+Fn=Ln+Vn(real MESH, all three columns)L_{n-1} + V_{n+1} + F_n = L_n + V_n \quad \text{(real MESH, all three columns)}
αi,j=KiKj(a wide-boiling train: α spans orders of magnitude)\alpha_{i,j} = \frac{K_i}{K_j} \quad \text{(a wide-boiling train: } \alpha \text{ spans orders of magnitude)}
BkFk+1(each column’s bottoms is literally the next column’s feed)B_k \equiv F_{k+1} \quad \text{(each column's bottoms is literally the next column's feed)}

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Stream each column's reflux ratio, overhead purity, and tower pressure from the sat-gas plant's OPC-UA server into this flowsheet's twin comparison — a column drifting off its solved cut point is flagged against the converged train, not against last month's lab result.

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