Relative Volatility Calculation using Vapor Pressure and Plotting from Antoine Equation

Application Link: https://puma281.shinyapps.io/dat_ant/

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Theory

Relative Volatility:

Relative volatility is a measure comparing the vapor pressures of the components in a liquid mixture of chemicals. This quantity is widely used in designing large industrial distillation processes.In effect, it indicates the ease or difficulty of using distillation to separate the more volatile components from the less volatile components in a mixture. By convention, relative volatility is usually denoted as

User Interface Description

User interface in the Application for choosing the compounds:

1. Number of Components (min =2,max = 5):

In this we need to input the number of components for the distillation column max upto 5 components

2.Component 1 or 2:

The Component-1 and Component-2 are the two compounds which we have to choose to calculate the volatility and observer their relative volatility for the range of Temperature

3.Feed Percentage:

In this box we need to enter the feed percentage of all the components which sums to 100%

4.Heavy Key:

Choose the component next to the light key which has the immediate highest boiling point which will be recovered in the bottoms from the order in the table (Data Table of the constants and Boiling Points in ascending order)

5.Light Key:

Choose the component which you want to recover in the distillate from the order in the table (Data Table of the constants and Boiling Points in ascending order)

7.Heavy Key:

Choose the component next to the light key which has the immediate highest boiling point which will be recovered in the bottoms from the order in the table (Data Table of the constants and Boiling Points in ascending order)

8.Distillate Recovery:

Enter the purity of the distillate you want to obtain

9.Bottoms Recovery:

Enter the purity of the bottoms you want to obtain

10.Input Feed Pressure (in atm):

The pressure at the input of the feed

11.Quality of feed (q):

The quality of the feed based on its condition supersaturate or saturated

12.Data Table of the constants and Boiling Points in ascending order:

This table is the new order of the components which we have to choose for the Light key and Heavy Key they have to together for the separation to achieve