2006 Spring Meeting & 2nd Global Congress on Process Safety

(58f) Extractive Distillaton: a Process Improvement Project

Authors

James P. Farone - Presenter, Trimeric Corporation
Menno M. Kroes - Presenter, Huntsman International
Mark Mueller - Presenter, Huntsman International


The objective of this paper will be a high level review of the technical methodology used to improve the overall performance of an extractive distillation purification unit that was complicated by unusual chemical equilibria.