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    The document describes two chemical plant simulations: 1) A vinyl chloride monomer production unit that involves the chlorination of ethylene and pyrolysis of the product to produce VCM, with purification via distillation. 2) An ammonia production process using the Finlayson process that involves compression, heating, catalytic reaction, cooling, flashing, and recycling to produce ammonia. Both simulations are to be run using appropriate property methods and convergence criteria to calculate stream compositions and flow rates throughout the processes.

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    The document describes two chemical plant simulations: 1) A vinyl chloride monomer production unit that involves the chlorination of ethylene and pyrolysis of the product to produce VCM, with purification via distillation. 2) An ammonia production process using the Finlayson process that involves compression, heating, catalytic reaction, cooling, flashing, and recycling to produce ammonia. Both simulations are to be run using appropriate property methods and convergence criteria to calculate stream compositions and flow rates throughout the processes.

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    The document describes two chemical plant simulations: 1) A vinyl chloride monomer production unit that involves the chlorination of ethylene and pyrolysis of the product to produce VCM, with purification via distillation. 2) An ammonia production process using the Finlayson process that involves compression, heating, catalytic reaction, cooling, flashing, and recycling to produce ammonia. Both simulations are to be run using appropriate property methods and convergence criteria to calculate stream compositions and flow rates throughout the processes.

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    EXPERIMENT 8

    Objective: Simulation of a Chemical Plants (a) Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) production
    unit (b) Ammonia production using Finlayson process.

    Problem 8a:
    Pure ethylene, stored as a gas at 70 oF and 1000 psia, with a flow rate of 20 tons/hr and pure
    chlorine, stored as a liquid at 70 oF and 150 psia, with a flow rate of 50 ton/hr enter the mixer
    block B1 operated at 2 atm. The mixer outlet F1 then goes to the reactor B2 run at 363 K and
    1.5 atm. In this stoichiometric reactor (RStoic), the following chlorination reaction occurs with
    98% conversion of ethylene to 1,2 –dichloroethane

    C2H4 + Cl2  C2H4Cl2

    In the next, mixer B3 operated at 1.4 atm allows the mixing of the recycled stream F12 with
    the reactor product F2. The outlet stream F3 is then condensed fully to liquid phase in block
    B4 at 298 K before being pumped to an evaporator. The pump B5 has discharged the liquid at
    26 atm. The evaporator B6 performs the phase change operation and then the vapor temperature
    is increased in the same unit to 515K. In the subsequent step, stream F6 is introduced in the
    reactor B7 (RStoic) in which the following pyrolysis reaction occurs:

    C2H4Cl2  C2H3Cl (VCM) + HCl

    The dichloroethane is converted to VCM and it takes place spontaneously at 773K and 25 atm
    with 65% conversion. To reduce the carbon deposition in the heat exchanger, the hot vapor
    stream leaving the reactor is quenched in block B8 yielding a saturated vapor stream at 443K.
    Quencher effluent stream F8 is condensed to liquid phase in block B9 at 279K and then fed to
    DSTWU column B10 as stream F9. In the next, stream F10 is introduced in another DSTWU
    column B11. The first column mainly separates HCl from other components, while the second
    column purifies VCM from the rests. Both the distillation columns have a 10 theoretical stages
    (including condenser and reboiler) each along with specifications shown in Table below:
    % Recovery of LK/ HK in distillate Pressure (atm)
    Block Light Key(LK) Heavy Key(HK) condenser Reboiler
    B10 99.9% of HCl 0.1%of VCM 20 22
    B11 99.9%of VCM 0.1% of dichloroethane 7.5 8

    Finally block B12 (Fsplit) splits stream F11 to ensure the recycling of 99.999% of F11 as F12
    stream to mixer B3. A purge stream is introduced to prevent accumulation of unreacted
    components. Using POLYSRK property method, simulate the complete plant and compute the
    composition of all streams. (Note: Use Polymers with Metric Units.)

    Problem 8b: An inlet stream H supplied at 80 0F and 300 psia is compressed to 4000 psia by
    the use of an isentropic compressor B1. Stream H has component-wise flow rates, shown in
    Table below
    Component Flow rate (lbmol/h)
    Nitrogen 100
    Hydrogen 300
    Ammonia 0
    Carbon dioxide 1

    Flow diagram for the ammonia process is shown below:

    Stream F1 is mixed with the recycle stream F8 in a mixer block B2 operated at 4000 psia.
    Before introducing into the reactor, the mixer effluent F2 is heated in block B3 to 9000F at
    4000 psia. Note that the reactor (RGIBBS) B4 runs at 9000F and 3970 psia. In the next, the
    reactor outlet F4 is cooled in a heat exchanger B5 operated at 800F and 3970 psia. The flash
    drum (Flash2) B6 produces Streams B1 and F6 at 800F and 3970 psia. In the subsequent step,
    Stream F6 enters the splitter (FSplit) B7 and 0.01% of it is used as purge. Finally, an isentropic
    compressor B8 has discharged Stream F8 to the mixer block B2 at 4000 psia. Using the NRTL
    thermodynamic model and the Newton’s iteration method (from the Data Browser, choose
    Convergence/Conv options ), simulate the ammonia process to compute the component-wise
    flow rates and compositions of all streams.

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