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Record W2054924146 · doi:10.2202/1542-6580.1004

Modeling of the Catalytic Distillation Process for the Synthesis of Ethyl Cellosolve Using A Three-Phase Nonequilibrium Model

2003· article· en· W2054924146 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicProcess Optimization and Integration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsDistillationReactive distillationNon-equilibrium thermodynamicsCatalysisChemistryYield (engineering)Mass transferThermodynamicsEthylene oxideChromatographyOrganic chemistryPhysicsPolymer

Abstract

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Abstract The catalytic distillation (CD) process for the synthesis of ethyl cellosolve from ethanol and ethylene oxide on molecular sieve catalyst NKC-01 in a 200 mm CD pilot column was simulated using the three-phase nonequilibrium model which was developed in our laboratory. The main feature of this model is that the actual rates for transport and reaction are used and the stage efficiency or HETP (height equivalent to a theoretical plate) is not required. The effect of multicomponent mass and heat transfer between vapor and liquid phases as well as between liquid and solid (catalyst) phases was taken into account according to the Maxwell-Stefan equations. The Newton-Raphson method was used to solve the model equations. The simulation profiles of the temperature and composition along the column are in good agreement with the pilot CD plant data obtained for the synthesis of ethyl cellosolve. Good agreement between model predictions and experimental data is also obtained for the yield and selectivity of the ethyl cellosolve. This model could be extended to simulate other CD processes and commercial scale CD plants.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.638
Threshold uncertainty score0.307

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it