I have sized a flash vessel with operating pressure 14 bar and design pressure 21 bar. The actual vessel in the plant seems to have diameter twice of what I sized but height more or les the same. However this flash vessel have a great water carryover. A decision is made to install a separator...
I have increased the injection rate of the isopropyl-alcohol to reactor from 1.1 metric tonne per hour to 1.5. I still charge the same amount of palmitate acid and catalyst to the reactor. Do you think this will speed up my reaction?
