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**Reactive Distillation: Control Structure and** 

Reactive Distillation (RD) is the combination of reaction and distillation in a single vessel (Backhaus, 1921). Over the past two decades, it has emerged as a promising alternative to conventional "reaction followed by separation" processes (Towler & Frey, 2002). The technology is attractive when the reactant-product component relative volatilities allow recycle of reactants into the reactive zone via rectification/stripping and sufficiently high reaction rates can be achieved at tray bubble temperature. For equilibrium limited reactions, the continuous removal of products drives the reaction to near completion (Taylor & Krishna, 2000). The reaction can also significantly simplify the separation task by reacting away azeotropes (Huss et al., 2003). The Eastman methyl acetate RD process that replaced a reactor plus nine column conventional process with a single column is a classic commercial success story (Agreda et al., 1990). The capital and energy costs of the RD process are

Not withstanding the potentially significant economic advantages of RD technology, the process integration results in reduced number of valves for regulating both reaction and separation with high non-linearity due to the reaction-separation interaction (Engell & Fernholtz, 2003). Multiple steady states have been reported for several RD systems (Jacobs & Krishna, 1993; Ciric & Miao 1994; Mohl et al., 1999). The existence of multiple steady states in an RD column can significantly compromise column controllability and the design of a robust control system that effectively rejects large disturbances is a principal consideration

In this Chapter, through case studies on a generic double feed two-reactant two-product ideal RD system (Luyben, 2000) and the methyl acetate RD system (Al-Arfaj & Luyben, 2002), the implications of the non-linear effects, specifically input and output multiplicity, on open and closed loop column operation is studied. Specifically, steady state transitions under open and closed loop operation are demonstrated for the two example systems. Input multiplicity, in particular, is shown to significantly compromise control system robustness with the possibility of "wrong" control action or a steady state transition under closed loop

reported to be a fifth of the conventional process (Siirola, 1995).

in the successful implementation of the technology (Sneesby et al., 1997).

operation for sufficiently large disturbances.

**1. Introduction** 

**Process Design for Robustness** 

V. Pavan Kumar Malladi1 and Nitin Kaistha2

*National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode,* 

*Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur,* 

*1Department of Chemical Engineering,* 

*2Department of Chemical Engineering,* 
