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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Chemical Engineering Forum => Topic started by: LRainJ on August 15, 2009, 03:01:41 AM

Title: design project: producing 2-butanol from n-butene by hydration
Post by: LRainJ on August 15, 2009, 03:01:41 AM

I'm currently designing a plant, converting n-butene to 2-butanol using water and catalyst.
Using Aspen to run the simulation. However, I am facing problem with azeotrope of water and 2-butanol. Since I don't know how to input azeotropic column using Aspen, so, what should I do?

I do have other side product like Di-sec-butyl ether.

Which reactor should I use in Aspen? (I'm using R-Stoic due to lack of k-values)
Any recommendation and reference suggestion?