Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s

College of Engineering & Technology

Kamothe, Navi Mumbai

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Quick Learners Project

DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICAL
MODEL AND SIMULATION OF LIQUID –
LIQUID EXTRACTION SYSTEM
Jitendra Malusare & Mehul Karkar
Guide: Dr. C. K. Mistry
• Abstract
Liquid-Liquid Extraction is one of the most significant unit
operations used widely in the chemical industry for the
separation of liquid-liquid mixture with the aid of an
extracting solvent.
There are different contacting patterns for the said purpose
viz. co-current, counter current and crosscurrent and also a
variety of equipment are encountered.
The simulation of Liquid-Liquid Extraction is created using
COCO Lab.
• Extraction & Liquid Liquid Extraction
 Extraction in chemistry is a separation
process consisting in the separation of a substance from
a matrix.
 Liquid -liquid extraction (LLE) is the process of
separation of a liquid mixture of components where
liquid solvents are used followed by dilution of one or
more components of the initial mixture
• Simulation in COCO Lab
 COCO (CAPE OPEN to CAPE OPEN) is a free-of-
charge CAPE-OPEN compliant steady-state simulation
environment.
• Software Input Requirements
1. The value of Xf (mass solute/total mass in feed) & Xn
(mass solute/total mass in Raffinate)
2. The feed rate of solution
3. The feed rate of Extracting solvent
4. Weight fraction of solute in extracting solvent
• Expected Program Output
1. Solute in feed solution (mass/time)
2. Solvent in feed solution (mass/time)
3. Solute in raffinate (mass/time)
4. Solute extracted from feed (mass/time)
5. Minimum solvent requirement for the extraction
6. Number of ideal stages required for the desired
separation (N)
Entering Data in COCO Simulator
• Observations
1. System Temperature = 298 °C
2. Feed mixture = Acetic Acid + Toluene
3. Solvent used = Water
4. Extract phase = Water + Acetic Acid
5. Raffinate phase = Toluene + Acetic Acid
6. Density of Acetic acid = 1.05 g/cc
7. Density of Toluene = 0.87 g/cc
8. Density of Water = 1 g/cc
9. Solute = Acetic Acid
• Output
1. Solute in feed solution (mass/time): 10.000000
2. Solvent in feed solution (mass/time): 990.000000
3. Solute in raffinate (mass/time): 0.990991
4. Solute extracted from feed (mass/time): 9.009009
5. Min. solvent requirement for the extraction: 974.880820
6. No. Of ideal stages required for the desired separation: 8
• Calculation of no. of theoretical stages
• Test no. 2

Feed:
100 Kg/hr of a Pyridine-Water containing 0.01 wt. fraction Pyridine is extracted
with 150 kg/hr of Kerosene containing 0.0006 wt. fraction Pyridine in counter
current stage column. Pyridine content of exit water stream is 0.0010 wt. fraction.
Determine the no. of theoretical stages required for the separation. Water and
Kerosene are extensively immiscible solvents.

X= 0 0.0010 0.0025 0.0050 0.0075 0.0100 0.0204

Y= 0 0.0008 0.0020 0.0046 0.0069 0.0091 0.0187

Enter the value of Xf (mass solute/total mass in feed): 0.01

Enter the value of Xn (mass solute/total mass in raffinate): 0.0010
Enter the feed rate (mass solute/mass solvent in extract phase): 100
Enter the extracting solvent rate (mass solute/mass solvent in extracting solvent): 150
Enter the weight fraction of solute in extracting solvent: 0.0006
• Result for Test no. 2
 Solute in feed solution (mass/time): 1.000000
 Solvent in feed solution (mass/time): 99.000000
 Solute in raffinate (mass/time): 0.099099
 Solute extracted from feed (mass/time): 0.900901
 Min. solvent requirement for the extraction: 97.488082
 No. Of ideal stages required for the desired separation: 9
• Conclusion
The simulation results have been compared with standard
literature available in chemical engineering and it is seen
that the results are absolutely identical.
Hence, the simulation created was working properly and
was successful.
• References
1. 1. Perry R.H., D.W. Green, Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook,
7th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997.
2. Treybal R.E. Mass Transfer Operations, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, New
York, 1980.
3. McCabe W.L., Smith J.C., Harriott P. Unit Operations of Chemical
Engineering, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2000.
4. Geankoplis C.J. Transport Processes and Unit Operations, 3rd ed.,
Prentice Hall of India, 2002.