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  • Review Article   
  • Ind Chem 2018,
  • DOI: 10.4172/2469-9764.1000125

Chemical Process Design for Manufacture of Xylene Isomers

Guy Francis Mongelli*, Leah Dougherty and Sarah Wang
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, USA
*Corresponding Author : Guy Francis Mongelli, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, USA, Tel: 6462095456, Email: gmongell@u.rochester.edu

Received Date: Feb 13, 2018 / Accepted Date: Mar 20, 2018 / Published Date: Mar 25, 2018

Abstract

According to the World Energy Outlook, the demand for coal will increase if conservative measures are not taken. As a result, carbon dioxide emissions will increase from coal use. Current manufacturing facilities use a large amount of external utilities, but measures can be taken to reduce the amount of energy such a facility needs by using energy generated from process streams. Using process data from a process of toluene conversion, the energy requirements for a pilot scale and full-scale manufacturing plant were minimized using pinch analysis and the resulting heat exchanger network was designed. A cost analysis was performed to determine the monetary savings associated with the new plant design, as well as the amount of coal saved as a result. Since para-xylene is the most valuable xylene isomer produced, the production of the isomer was optimized by modeling the concentration profiles with several reactor systems. The dynamics of a heat exchanger were examined and modeled using the heat exchanger equation. The temperature profile as a function of both time and exchanger position was obtained using both a finite element analysis and using an analytical solution.

Keywords: Energy; Carbon dioxide; Concentration; Xylene

Citation: Mongelli GF, Dougherty L, Wang S (2018) Chemical Process Design for Manufacture of Xylene Isomers. Ind Chem 4: 125 Doi: 10.4172/2469-9764.1000125

Copyright: © 2018 Mongelli GF, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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