Chapter 14 Combo reactors
Distillation column reactors
This chapter is primarily concerned with the distillation–reaction combo reactor (or distillation column reactor (DCR) as it is usually called). We shall also briefly consider the case where reaction is imposed on a difficultly separable mixture to achieve complete separation. Membrane reactors are already treated separately in Chapter 13.
As mentioned in Interlude I, combo reactors can be (i) reaction oriented or (ii) separation oriented. Irrespective of whether reaction or separation is of primary concern, three types of combo reactors are commonly used: reaction–extraction, reaction–distillation, and reaction–crystallization (Doraiswamy, 2001).
Crystallization is almost always used ...
