The process has five major unit operations: the
reactor, the product condenser, a vapor-liquid separator,
a recycle compressor and a product stripper.
Figure 1 shows a diagram of the process. Table 1
provides the base case steady-state heat and material
balance data for the process and Table 2 lists the
component physical properties.
The gaseous reactants are fad to the reactor where
they react to form liquid products. The gas phase reactions
are catalyzed by a nonvolatile catalyst dissolved
in the liquid phase. The reactor has an internal
cooling bundle for removing the heat of reaction. The
vapor-liquid separator. Noncondensed components
recycle back through a centrifugal compressor to
the reactor feed. Condensed components move to
a product stripping column to remove remaining
reactants by stripping with feed stream number 4.
Products G and H exit the stripper base and are
separated in a downstream refining section which
is not included in this problem. The inert and
byproduct are primarily purged from the system as
a vapor from the vapor-liquid separator.
There are six modes of process operation at three
different G/H mass ratios (stream 11):