Abstract
Abstract Nowadays, the installation and operation of systems with minimum energy and material consumption is a main objective in the industrial ambit; this goal can be achieved through the implementation of recycle streams to recover raw materials and the use of energy integration techniques to minimize utilities requirements. However, when a process is highly integrated, e.g. processes with recycle streams and energy integration or thermal couplings, systems can present control problems. Several studies for Reactor-Separation-Recycle (RSR) systems using separation systems with conventional distillation columns have been reported, but few works have focused on energy-integrated columns or thermally coupled distillation sequences. This work presents a comparison between the dynamic behavior of a thermally coupled distillation column with side rectifier implemented within a RSR system and that obtained with a conventional distillation sequence.
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