 You
have been given a summer internship by J. Flabetes Inc., a somewhat well known
chemical company located in sunny California. Your last project for the summer
is to study a proposed method of removing acetic acid from the waste water. The
acetic acid is to be removed by reacting it with methanol in a catalyst filled
semibatch reactor :
It has been suggested that reactive distillation be included
in the plans, but your boss is kind of skeptical. Your job is to simulate the
reaction and see if reactive distillation is a better option than without.
We will begin by looking at the semibatch reactor case with
no reactive distillation.
No Reactive Distillation
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We can use and Ordinary Differential Equation solver
such as Polymath to model the reaction.
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