Material Balance

Material Requirement
To produce 1 billion lb of styrene per year:

Reaction:
C8H12 + O2 C6H5C2H3 + 2H2O (85% selectivity) C8H12 + 11O2 8CO2 + 6H2O (15% selectivity)

Preferred Alternative
Reaction (BD VCH) 95%
2C4H6 C8H12 (100% selectivity)

Reaction (1 butene VCH) 18%

2C4H8 +O2 C8H12 + 2H2O(67% selectivity) 2C4H8 +2O2 C8H8 + 4H2O(6% selectivity) 4C4H8 +3O2 2C8H12 + 6H2O(27% selectivity)

 C4 crude required:

Component

MW

Mass Composition 0.30 0.30 0.20 0.07 0.07 0.04

Mass Flow Rate (kg/hr) 69,498.00 69,498.00 46,332.00 16,216.20 16,216.20 9,266.40

Mole Flow Rate (kg/hr) 1,284.86 1,238.60 825.74 289.01 289.01 159.44

BD isobutene 1 butene cis-2-butene

54.09 56.11 56.11 56.11

trans-2-butene
n-butane isobutane Total

56.11
58.12 58.12

0.02
1.00

4,633.20
231,660.00

79.72
4,166.36

Mass balance around reactor

Material Balance for Extractive Distillation

Manual Calculation
Amount of BD extracted from crude C4: Components of Crude C4 in mass:
Butadiene Isobutene 1 butene Cis -2- butene Trans -2- butene N-butane Isobutane = 71983.93 (30%) = 71983.93 (30%) = 47989.28 (20%) = 16796.25 (7%) = 16796.25 (7%) = 9597.86 (4%) = 4798.93 (2%)

Mole Balance Summary

Mass Balance Summary

Material Balance around Dimerization Reactor

Manual Calculation
Reaction
2C4H6 C8H12

To produce 653.59kmol/hr of VCH:

Unreacted BD:

Manual Calculation
Recycled BD:

Amount of fresh BD:

Mole Balance Summary

Mass Balance Summary

Material Balance around Dehydrogenation Reactor

Manual Calculation
Amount of unreacted VCH:

To achieve 99.7% styrene purity, the amount of impurities must be around;

Mole Balance Summary

Mass Balance Summary