Methanol-Water Distillation (CHG4116 Presentation, Fall 2021)
Channel: F A
Date: 2021-11-25

Distillation Lab CHG4116 Group 9: Investigation of feed stage, preheating and reflux ratio on performance and energy requirements for liquid methanol-water separation via distillation. 

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** Notes and corrections: 
* We would like to thank our TA Kaitlin for her excellent guidance and instruction, Dr. Kruczek for his helpful and detailed feedback, and the lab technician Gérard Nina for his assistance in the lab with salvaging our data files after a computer error.
* Slide 5 speaker notes:
Correlations from (Zhong 2008, Corsaro 2018). Density data from (Perry 1997, Mikhail 1961). See last ten seconds of video for full references.
* Slide 9:
Average of all runs. The bump around stage 5 was visible on all runs.

* Slide 12: 
The third feed stage number should be 5, not 3, for both sets. Stages used were 1, 3, 5.
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Presented By: Farhang Amini, Carter Macklin, Bradley Audet, Seth Di Rauso, and Olivia Friscioni.
On: November 26, 2021.
At: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
To: Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek, P.Eng. (professor) and Ms. Kaitlin Wagner (TA).

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