FLOWSHEET AND PROCESS EXPLANATION:

Components:
1).Reactants : p-xylene,O 2
2).Product : Terephthalic Acid
3).By Product : H2O and other Heavy
Products
4).Catalyst and Promoter :
Cobalt/Manganese/Bromine and Ionic liquid
5).Solvent : Acetic Acid
Reaction : The basic oxidation reaction is taking place in
this process

This process is same as Amoco process but the Amoco

process is having problem due to HBr promoter .HBr
promoter is reason for corrosion so we are using Ionic
liquid as a promoter so we dont need to use an
expensive metal or mean to say that we can use stainless
steel at palace of Platinum so it will be cheaper than
Amoco process so we are selecting this process.
Flowsheet and its Explanation:
We are separating the flow sheet into 3 parts because it
is very large
The first flow sheet is just a layout that give the what is
going to be in all three flow sheet and we have separated
that into 3 parts namely
1).Section 100
2).Section 200
3).Section 300

1).Section 100
Reactor Network
Section 100 contains Reactor Network

This section consists of six continuously stirred tank

reactors in parallel. For each reactor, room temperature
p-xylene and make-up solvent, with catalyst and
promoter, are pressurized and fed into the reactor along
with recycled solvent from section 300. Pressurized
oxygen and carbon dioxide are sparged from the bottom
of the reactor to generate mixing. The reactor outlet is a
slurry stream consisting mainly of solid product, acetic
acid, and water. This slurry stream is sent to Section 200
and Section 300 for separation and solvent recycle. As
the reaction is highly exothermic, enough heat to allow
the CSTR to run isothermally at the desired temperature
and pressure is removed through two cooling systems, a
reflux condenser that cools the vapors and recondenses
vaporized solvent and water and a pumparound
exchanger that circulates slurry that is cooled with
cooling water.
Pressure inside the Reactor is 261.1 psia and Temprature
is 392 F.
2).Section 200
In this section, the slurry streams from each reactor are
depressurized to a pressure close to atmospheric
pressure. Due to the decrease in pressure, a portion of
the liquid in the slurry stream vaporizes, which is
separated out in a flash vessel and sent to Section 300
for solvent separation. The rest of the slurry is sent to a
centrifuge where the majority of the mother liquor is
separated from the solid product and also sent to Section
300. The wet cake from the centrifuge is sent to a dryer,
in which air removes the remaining liquid by vaporizing it.
To handle the transport of solids, belt conveyors and
screw conveyors are utilized. The product is stored in
silos (bins) and shipped from the plant in tank cars.
3).Section 300 :

About solvent recovery

Before the acetic acid can be recycled back to the
oxidation reactor, a series of separations must take place
to purify the solvent. The vapor and liquid streams from
Section 200 are blown and pumped, respectively, to the
first distillation column. The first distillation column
removes noncondensables and water from acetic acid.
Moreover, a side stream of mostly acetic acid is sent
straight back to the reactor without further purification.
The remaining acetic acid in the bottoms is further
purified in a second, smaller distillation column and a
falling film evaporator to remove heavy weight impurities.
Unfortunately, a portion of ionic liquid, which has virtually
no vapor pressure, is also discarded along with the heavy
weights. The purified streams of acetic acid are recycled
back to the reactor.