Phthalic Anhydride Production

This book is to innovate process and design and study the economic feasibility for production of Phthalic Anhydride plant.In this booko-xylene chosen as raw material of the plant which contains mainly of reactorvapor liquid separator then two distillations columns. A material and energy was made for the process to determine the total energy and flow in the processboth calculations was compared with HYSYS simulations results.A heat integration is applied for process to reduce energy costs(heating and cooling utilities) and losses. In addition a detailed equipment design was conducted for the all major equipment to find the sizes and required number of items.Designs were made for all the ancillary equipment after heat integration(heat exchangesfired heaters storage tankspump and compressor). After that the basic safety requirements were determined and a hazard analysis was conducted a simple layout was also created. A basic control scheme was developed for the overall processto ensure that the produces meet the requirements.