Amount of heating steam used in distillation operations
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Water and phenol are mixed in a 10:1 ratio, and now distillation is used to separate them. How much heating steam is required to extract 1 ton of water? :(
For single-effect distillation with large separation, at least one ton of steam is required to separate one ton of phenol; this is related to the number of theoretical plates needed for separation, which in turn affects the reflux ratio. The amount of steam required for double-effect distillation can be reduced by half.