| Implementation of mass integration design concept for material preservation in acrylonitrile industry |
| Paper ID : 1059-ICEE (R2) |
| Authors: |
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Nessren Farrag1, Ayat Ossama Ghallab *2 1Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt 2Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University |
| Abstract: |
| The industrial production has suffered from huge amounts of waste discharges that contain valuable unreacted components as well as major contaminants that affect the environment. Just like heat integration, mass integration evolves around recycling the discharge streams back into the process to increase the overall plant performance and decrease the fresh feedstock resources used as well as extracting the valuable contaminants whether in product streams or waste streams; thus, decreasing the overall cost and increasing the production value of outcomes. The study has tackled mass integration graphically on an existing production process, acrylonitrile, and discuss the effect of the mass exchanger network on the system. The mass network developed improved both the production yield and the product quality. In this research, the plant, located in Baroda complex, India, on a 500 m2 area, has been studied for mass integration using mass separating agents. The mass separating agents used were water and benzene. A mass exchange network design has been conducted in the feasible design regions to achieve maximum mass recovery and mass targets of each mass exchanger. Three extra units were added for Acetonitrile removal, Hydrogen cyanide removal, and Acrylonitrile extraction. |
| Keywords: |
| Mass Integration, Mass Exchange Network, Acrylonitrile, Graphical Design Approach |
| Status : Paper Accepted |
