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Ruhul Amin, Nazibul Islam, Rezwanul Islam, Yusuf Imtiaz, Saeed M., Unaiza M.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Abstract
Formaldehyde plays a major role in the synthesis of many important compounds. Worldwide production
of formaldehyde is growing day bay day. There are various industrial processes for the production of
formaldehyde. This article starts with an overview of formaldehyde and the history of formaldehyde
production. Subsequently, production of formaldehyde using silver catalyst is simulated with the help of
Aspen Hysys 7.1. Important parameters such as temperature profile, pressure profile, fluid properties etc
were investigated with this simulation process. The effect of temperature in the reaction was also
examined. The simulation process validated that for maximum conversion to take place, the reaction must
occur in 550C. Finally, 74% formaldehyde was obtained as product.
Key Words: Formaldehyde, Oxidation-dehydrogenation, NRTL, Simulation
products generated from formaldehyde include
1. Introduction
iso-cyanate.[5]
In
biomedical
industry,
[4]
[6]
In
every process
[7, 8]
[9,
10]
route,
Formaldehyde
catalyst
is
at
formed
about
by
before
beginning
In the
vaporized
condition
process simulation.
650 C.
the
de-
molecule
any experiment.
2. Methodology
The process of producing formaldehyde from
methanol is simulated in Simulation software
Aspen Hyssy 7.1. Aspen Hysys is a simulationsoftware which comes along with excellent
reference & tutorial manuals for simulating a
process. Hysys does not wait until entering
is
different
from
the
bulk
The NRTL model belongs to the so-called localcomposition models. Other models of this type
are
local-composition
thermodynamically
models
consistent
due
are
not
to
the
is
independent
of
the
local
1976[15, 16].
These
two
reactions
occur
passed
into
the
methanol-air
mixer.
Atmospheric air is purified, compressed and preheated to 540C in a finned heat exchanger. The
Reaction
CH2O + H2O;
H = -156 KJ
mole
gcatalyst
K 1 pm
rm2 [
]=
hr
1+ K 2 pm
Where,
lnK 1=16.9
CH3OH
CH 2O + H2;
H = +85 KJ
12500
T
And
2 reaction would be -1
For Formaldehyde it would be +1 for the both
reactions.
lnK 2=25.0
15724
T
nd
mole
gcatalyst
k 1 pm
r m 1[
]=
hr
1+k 2 pm
up
to
formaldehyde
and
hydrogen.
4. The vapor from the reactor outlet is
Where,
8774
lnk 1=12.50
T
And
lnk 2=17.29+
7439
T
and
vapor
product
of
44.1%
formaldehyde.
8. The vapor product is heated to 35 C
and delivered to a storage tank.
4
100
Temperature
0
-100
10
15
-200
-300
Number of Tray
2.
Column
is
around
-2500C.
The
is
not
desired.
Storage
at
1.00E+030
1.00E+027
1.00E+024
1.00E+021
1.00E+018
1000000000000000
Light liquid
1000000000000
1000000000
1000000
1000
1
0 5 1015
20
15
Pressure(psia) 10
5
0
-2
13
Number of Tray
3.2
Pressure profile of Distillation column
Y=0.6081X+10.551
8.00E+03
0.8
7.00E+03
0.7
6.00E+03
0.6
5.00E+03
0.5
4.00E+03
0.4
3.00E+03
0.3
2.00E+03
0.2
1.00E+03
0.1
0.00E+00
0
8 10 12 14 16
0
0
10 12 14 16
1.00E+05
1.00E-03
1.00E-11
1.00E-19
1.00E-27
1.00E-59
10 12 14 16
1.00E-43
1.00E-51
1.00E-35
1.00E-67
0.8
120
0.7
100
0.6
0.5
80
0.4
0.3
Column Properties
0.2
60
40
0.1
20
0
0
10 12 14 16
0
0
5 10 15
Y=0.2622X+23.182
And, R2=0.9981
And, R2=0.8865
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-1.15E+08
20 40 60
-1.20E+08
1.
-1.25E+08
Heat flow (kJ/h)
-1.30E+08
-1.35E+08
2.
-1.40E+08
Temperature of heated feed (C)
3.
4.
5.
6.
4. Conclusion
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