Isolation of Benzene, Toluene and Xylene Cont.....

Benzene toluene separation column:

•       Benzene-Toluene separator is binary distillation column produces pure aromatics. Low pressure steam is used as heating media for the reboiler. Pure benzene is obtained from top of the column and pure toluene from its bottom section. General column specification used in existing plant and may change to present optimum modification.

qTotal trays                    65 Bubble cap

qFeed tray                      30th

qPressure                      1.2 bars

qBenzene purity             99.97%

qToluene purity              99.95%