dc.contributor.advisor | Chebbi, Rached Mohamed | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Darwish, Naif | |
dc.contributor.author | Ashraf, Muhammad Tahir | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-11T06:25:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-11T06:25:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
dc.identifier.other | 35.232-2013.23 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11073/5896 | |
dc.description | A Master of Science thesis in Chemical Engineering by Muhammad Tahir Ashraf entitled, "Analysis and Optimization of p-Xylene Production Process," submitted in June 2013. Thesis advisor is Dr. Rached Mohamed Chebbi and Co-advisor is Dr. Naif Abdelaziz Darwish. Available are both soft and hard copies of the thesis. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In this study a process is developed for selective production of p-xylene from toluene methylation using reactive distillation for p-xylene separation. Complete process is simulated in Aspen Plus® and reaction parameters are optimized to get 97.5% p-xylene selectivity using built-in optimization tool. Highly selective p-xylene production greatly reduces the separation cost and also reduces the production of less desired xylene isomers. After separation p-xylene product stream purity of 99.7% is achieved. Then a second law analysis is made on the process developed and lost work of different blocks is compared. Heat integration of the process is done using Aspen Energy Analyzer® resulting in 23% reduced total lost work generation. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | College of Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department of Chemical Engineering | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (MSChE) | en_US |
dc.subject | p-xylene production | en_US |
dc.subject | toluene methylation | en_US |
dc.subject | p-xylene selectivity | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Xylene | en_US |
dc.title | Analysis and Optimization of p-Xylene Production Process | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |