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Interpreting A Ternary Liquid-Liquid Triangle Diagram: Mike Hansen Chen 3603, Spring 2013 University of Utah

This document discusses how to interpret and use a ternary liquid-liquid triangle diagram to separate a mixture of water, ethylene glycol, and furfural. It explains the key features of the diagram including miscibility boundaries, tie lines, plait points, and how to determine the input point and calculate extract and raffinate outflows using lever arm rules. The goal is to use furfural to separate ethylene glycol from water.

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Interpreting A Ternary Liquid-Liquid Triangle Diagram: Mike Hansen Chen 3603, Spring 2013 University of Utah

This document discusses how to interpret and use a ternary liquid-liquid triangle diagram to separate a mixture of water, ethylene glycol, and furfural. It explains the key features of the diagram including miscibility boundaries, tie lines, plait points, and how to determine the input point and calculate extract and raffinate outflows using lever arm rules. The goal is to use furfural to separate ethylene glycol from water.

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Interpreting a Ternary Liquid-

Liquid Triangle Diagram


Mike Hansen

ChEn 3603, Spring 2013

University of Utah
Where are we?

• In the textbook, this is Section 5 of


Chapter 4

• In the notes, this is the set on Single Stage
Equilibrium

• Just finished flash drums
Example Problem
• We’ll do an example problem involving
water, ethylene glycol, and furfural

!

• Furfural completely dissolves ethylene


glycol, but only partially dissolves water
Solvent
We’re using furfural to separate
ethylene glycol from water
Solute Carrier
Triangle Diagram: Basics
If you forget how to PURE
read the compositions,
1 0 Ternary

use the zero lines mixture
Be careful in reading back to the composition!

Binary mixture with


Binary mixture with

no water no furfural

Ethylene Glycol Water

0 1
PURE PURE
1 Binary mixture with
Furfural 0
no ethylene glycol
Triangle Diagram:
Miscibility Boundary
1 0
We need to be in the two-phase
region (extract & raffinate) Single
Phase
Region
Miscibility Boundary

Ethylene Glycol Water made by adding water to



ethylene glycol & furfural

mixture until there

is cloudiness (2nd phase)

Two Phase Region

0 1
1 Furfural 0
Triangle Diagram:
Tie Lines & Plait Point
Plait Point 1 0 Tie Lines
Tie lines converge to the Plait Point,
Tie lines connect equilibrium points on

where both liquid phases (extract
the miscibility boundary
and raffinate) have the same

composition
At 2-phase equilibrium,
these are our extract and
raffinate compositions!

Ethylene Glycol Water


Raffinate
Composition
Extract (Phase 2)
(Feed + Solvent)
Composition
Mix
(Phase 1)

0 1
1 Furfural 0
Feed + Solvent --> Mix composition --> Tie Line --> Extract and Raffinate composition at two-phase equilibrium
Triangle Diagram:
Getting the Input Point
1 0 Points S and F define the line

the mix point M is found with the inverse-lever-arm rule


flow rates

F SM
F =
Feed

S MF
Ethylene Glycol
comp.

M Water
Mix

S
0 1
1 Furfural 0
Solvent composition
Triangle Diagram:
Getting the Outflows
1 0 Find the tie line that point M lies on
Extend to the extract and raffinate compositions
Use the inverse-lever-arm rule again...

unknown

flow rates
E RM
=
R EM
Ethylene Glycol R
Total mass/mole balance to complete
M Water
Mix
E+R=F +S
E geometrically:
0 1
1 Furfural 0 EM + RM = ER

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