Sulfolane Process Flowsheets & Simulations
Explore 2 validated, solved Sulfolane simulation flowsheets in MaximaLabs — real components: benzene, toluene, methylcyclohexane, sulfolane. Open any one directly in your browser.
Solved via: PENG-ROBINSON, NRTL.
Sulfolane extractive distillation of aromatics
Extractive distillation recovering benzene and toluene from a stabilized reformate's C6-C7 non-aromatics (represented by methylcyclohexane) using sulfolane, after Figure 10.2/10.6 of T. Brouwer (PhD thesis, TU Twente, 2021). A vacuum solvent-recovery column then splits the aromatics from the sulfolane (reported as its own product rather than recycled). Note: the extractive column (ED) does not fully converge within the solver's iteration cap for this 4-component polar/nonpolar system and returns a partial profile — shown for the process topology rather than as a converged reference case.
7 unit ops • PENG-ROBINSON
17 0
View & openSulfolane liquid-liquid extraction of aromatics
Liquid-liquid extraction of aromatics from a refinery catalytic-reformer stream with sulfolane, after Figure 10.1 of T. Brouwer (PhD thesis, TU Twente, 2021). A countercurrent extraction cascade pulls benzene and toluene preferentially into the sulfolane-rich extract, leaving a methylcyclohexane-rich raffinate.
5 unit ops • NRTL
17 0
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