Modeling and Simulation of Ethyl Acetate Reactive Distillation Column Using Aspen Plus

software. Reactive distillation is a process where simultaneous chemical reaction and vapour-liquid phase separation take place. This represents an exciting alternative to traditional liquid phase chemical reaction processing. In reactive distillation, separation of products from unconverted reactants allows for greater conversion, because product removal displaces equilibrium and forces the reaction towards completion. The combination of reaction and distillation helps in achieving products of higher purity and higher conversion of reactants as compared to old conventional processes. Both reaction and distillation acting simultaneously offers certain advantages that c an’t be achieved by conventional processing. The Aspen Plus TM simulator was used and RADFRAC model was used in Aspen Plus TM which is meant for the reactive distillation simulation. Reactive distillation is also important from the economic point of view as it involves chemical reaction and distillation in the same unit and hence it is preffered over the old conventional processes which involve chemical reaction and distillation separately.