1984 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 62-67
A method is proposed for determining the minimum temperature of heat source required for the separation of a binary mixture by use of three types of multi-effect distillation : forward feed, individual feed and backward feed types.
The feature of the proposed method is to solve a set of nonlinear simultaneous equations composed of enthalpy balance of the multi-effect distillation processes by using a quasi-linearization method. The stable convergence of the proposed method is demonstrated in numerical examples of binary separation of 2-methylpentane-n-hexane system.
