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Comparison of Multieffect Distillation and Extractive Distillation Systems for Corn-Based Ethanol Plants

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dc.contributor.authorDion Ngute, Miles Ndikaen
dc.contributor.committeechairLiu, Y. A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMartin, Stephen M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDurrill, Preston L.en
dc.contributor.departmentChemical Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-04T19:50:45Zen
dc.date.adate2012-04-05en
dc.date.available2017-04-04T19:50:45Zen
dc.date.issued2012-01-13en
dc.date.rdate2016-09-27en
dc.date.sdate2012-01-25en
dc.description.abstractRecent publications on ethanol production and purification shows optimized energy and water consumptions as low as 22,000 Btu/gal ethanol and 1.54 gal water/gal ethanol respectively using multieffect distillation. Karuppiah, et al use column rating and mathematical optimization methods and shortcut design models to design evaluate and optimize the energy and water consumption. In this work, we compare shortcut design and rigorous simulation models for an ethanol purification distillation system, and we show that distillation systems based on shortcut design underestimate the true energy and water consumption of the distillation system. We then use ASPEN Plus, to design a multieffect distillation system and an extractive distillation system using rigorous simulation and compare the two for energy and water consumptions. We show that the extractive distillation system has lower steam and cooling water consumptions and consequently lower energy and water consumptions than multieffect distillation in corn-to-ethanol production and purification. We also show that the extractive distillation system is cheaper than the multieffect distillation system on a cost per gal ethanol basis. This work gives an energy consumption of 29987 Btu/gal ethanol and water consumptions 2.82 gal/gal ethanol for the multieffect distillation system at a manufacturing cost of $3.03/gal ethanol. For the extractive distillation system, we calculate an energy consumption of 28199 Btu/gal ethanol and a water consumption of 2.79 gal/gal ethanol at a manufacturing cost of $2.88/gal ethanol.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-01252012-061321en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01252012-061321/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/76981en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectAzeotropeen
dc.subjectHeat Integrationen
dc.subjectExtractive Distillationen
dc.subjectMultieffect Distillationen
dc.titleComparison of Multieffect Distillation and Extractive Distillation Systems for Corn-Based Ethanol Plantsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineChemical Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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