Tutorial on using the distillation and loss operations

Example - model of ethanol distillation out from fermented mixture using this flowchart editor / process simulator

Before you continue...

• Concept of this program
• how to start building a project

Topic and recipe of example project

Distillation: separate volatile components from less volatile ones

• Use %^C unit as often as possible. This makes your project more robust to changes.
• Use 100 %^C for volatile compounds which evaporate totally, and the whole amount of them is transferred into the distillate
• For non-volatile components which remain totally in the residue not even a row is necessary. These can be omitted.
• Volatile components which distills out to a definite extent should be defined, and the amount must be determined by some experimental work. Swith the unit in the checking fields to %^FM, composition of the distillate could be checked easily.

Loss of distillation: uncondensed material as loss