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Water-benzaldehyde simulation

Water-benzaldehyde simulation

Water-benzaldehyde simulation

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Hello. I am trying to simulate the distillation of a mixture composed by aroma chemicals, but at this atge I am mainly interested in the separation between water and benzaldehyde. Has anyone done something like this. I am not sure about which property model to choose with the hysys software.

Thank you.

RE: Water-benzaldehyde simulation

Benzaldehyde is not soluble in water. I wouldn't have expected that anyway, given that ring in the compound. The presence of other compounds in the mixture might improve their ability to mix, much as you have with a ternary of benzene, ethanol, and water (the classic azeotropic distillation example). A separation between benzaldehyde and water? My first response would be to use a simple decanter, but I think we don't know enough about your particular problem to say much that is useful. What other compounds are present, and what does your process look like? For VLE calculations, I imagine a liquid activity model, such as NRTL, would be applied. However, obtaining the interaction parameters for that binary would be difficult, given the insolubility. Parameters regressed from a ternary with something else might be possible. Provide details; then perhaps we can help.

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