LIQUID-LIQUID
       EXTRACTION
MODELS/APPLICATIONS
EQUILIBRIUM RELATIONSHIPS

• PHASE RULE FOR LLE
             C P 2
  FOR 3 COMPONENTS / 2 PHASES
            3 2 2   3
• VARIABLES INCLUDED
 – PRESSURE
 – TEMPERATURE
 – 4 COMPOSITIONS (2 IN EACH PHASE)
LLE DIAGRAMS - FORMS
• LLE CAN BE PRESENTED IN
  VARIOUS FORMATS
   – TRIANGULAR, CARTESIAN,
     McCABE-THIELE

Cehreli, S.; Bilgin, M,
.Quaternary Liquid-Liquid
Equilibrium of Water + Acetic
Acid + Propionic Acid + Solvent
(Amyl Alcohol, Cyclohexyl
Acetate, or Toluene) Systems,
J. Chem. Eng. Data; (Article);
2004; 49(5); 1456-1459.
OTHER LLE PLOTS




Kim, J.-K.; Park, D.-W., Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium for the
Quaternary System Toluene + Water + Propionic Acid + Ethyl
Acetate at 25 C and Atmospheric Pressure ,
J. Chem. Eng. Data; (Article); 2005; 50(2); 625-629
LLE PLOTS




Kim, J.-K.; Park, D.-W., Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium for the Quaternary
   System Toluene + Water + Propionic Acid + Ethyl Acetate at 25 C
   and Atmospheric Pressure ,
   J. Chem. Eng. Data; (Article); 2005; 50(2); 625-629
LLE PLOTS
• CARTESIAN SOLVENT-FREE PLOT




         PERRY’S Ed. 7, PAGE 15-7
SINGLE STAGE LLX MODELS
• MASS BALANCES INCLUDE
  OVERALL AND COMPONENT
• NEED EQUILIBRIUM DATA TO
  CALCULATE EQUILIBRIUM
  CHANGES
• STAGE EFFICIENCY LESS THAN
  100% RESULTS IN A CHANGE IN
  RELATIVE LOCATION OF xa VS xa*
  EMPLOYS LEVER RULE
SINGLE STAGE LLX MODELS
• TYPICAL MODEL FOR PROCESS:



Pandit, P.; Basu, S., Dye
and Solvent Recovery in
Solvent Extraction Using
Reverse Micelles for the
Removal of Ionic Dyes
, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.;
(Article); 2004; 43(24);
7861-7864.
MULTIPLE STAGE LLX MODELS
• MODEL USES OVERALL AND
  COMPONENT MASS BALANCES
• EQUILIBRIUM DATA USED INITIALLY TO
  DETERMINE MINIMUM SOLVENT (L/V)
  RATIO (PONCHON-SAVARITT)
  – LOCATES ya,min ON EXTENDED EQUILIBRIUM
    TIE LINE PASSING THROUGH xa
  – USE LEVER RULE TO DETERMINE Vb,min
• LOCALIZED EQUILIBRIUM VALUES CAN
  RESULT IN ACTUAL Vb,min VALUES BEING
  HIGHER AND THIS WILL BE NOTICED IN
  ACTUAL DESIGN IF Ncalc = ∞
MULTIPLE STAGE LLX MODELS
• SEQUENTIAL FEED – NORMALLY
  COUNTERCURRENT


Nishihama, S.; Hirai, T.;
Komasawa, I., Separation and
Recovery of Gallium and
Indium from Simulated Zinc
Refinery Residue by Liquid-
Liquid Extraction ,
Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.;
(Article); 1999; 38(3); 1032-
1039.
MULTIPLE STAGE LLX MODELS
• DESIGN IS BASED ON RATIO OF Vb,act TO
  Vb,min
• USED TO LOCATE ya,act
• DESIGN POINT BASED IN INTERSECTION
  OF xa-ya LINE WITH xb-yb LINE.
• STAGES ARE STEPPED OFF BY
  ALTERNATING BETWEEN
  INTERSECTIONS ON EQUILIBRIUM
  ENVELOPE DEFINED BY EQUILIBRIUM
  TIE LINES AND LINES FROM DESIGN
  POINT.
MULTIPLE STAGE LLX MODELS
• McCABE THEILE DIAGRAM CAN BE
  CONSTRUCTED FROM DATA FROM
  PONCHON-SAVARITT
• ALTERNATELY, IF B & S ARE
  RELATIVELY IMMISCIBLE AND
  FLOWS ARE SPECIFIED, THEN
  INERT FLOW MODEL CAN BE USED
  FOR THE OPERATING LINE. USING
  COMPONENT BALANCES FOR
  SOLUTE, A:
MULTIPLE STAGE LLX MODELS
• INERT FLOWS MODEL
 OVERALL
       xa          yb               xb           ya
 L`          V`               L`           V`
      1 xa        1 yb             1 xb         1 ya
 FOR INTERIM STAGE
       xa          yn 1              xn           ya
 L`          V`                L`           V`
      1 xa        1 yn    1         1 xn         1 ya


• L' = NON-TRANSFERRING B IN
  RAFFINATE AND V' = NON-
  TRANSFERRING S IN EXTRACT.
• CAN BE PLOTTED WITH EQUILIBRIUM
  LINE ON McCABE-THIELE FOR
  CALCULATIONS
LLX EQUIPMENT
• MIXER-SETTLERS
A+B       S




                                 EXTRACT
               EXTRACT LAYER
                                 FAFFINATE
               RAFFINATE LAYER




  MIXER           SETTLER
LLX EQUIPMENT
• SPRAY TYPE EXTRACTION TOWER




  Chen, Liang-Huei (Chia-Nan Coll of Pharmacy and Science); Lee, Yuh-
  Lang, Effects of a surfactant on the mass transfer in spray-tower
  extraction column, Chemical Engineering Journal, v 73, n 1, 1999, p 77-
  81
SPRAY TYPE EXTRACTION TOWER

• USES A SPARGER FOR LIGHT
  LIQUID AND DISPERSER FOR
  HEAVY LIQUID
• OVERFLOW IS LIGHT/UNDERFLOW
  IS HEAVY
SIEVE TRAY EXTRACTION TOWER

  • SIMILAR TO DISTILLATION UNIT




J. Antonio Rocha, J. Carlos
Cardenas, Cesar Sosa, and Jorge
Rosales, Preliminary design of
sieve tray extraction columns. 1.
Determination of the column
diameter. Flooding velocities in
sieve tray extractors , Ind. Eng.
Chem. Res.; 1989; 28(12) pp
1873 - 1878
SIEVE TRAY EXTRACTION TOWER

• LIGHT LIQUID INVENTORIED
  UNDER EACH TRAY
• BUBBLES OF LIGHT LIQUID PASS
  THROUGH COUNTERFLOW OF
  HEAVY LIQUID
• DOWNCOMERS ARE USED TO
  TRANSFER HEAVY LIQUID DOWN
  THE COLUMN
SIEVE TRAY EXTRACTION TOWER

• DOWNCOMER DESIGN


   J. Antonio Rocha, J. Carlos
   Cardenas, Cesar Sosa, and
   Jorge Rosales, Preliminary
 design of sieve tray extraction
columns. 1. Determination of the
    column diameter. Flooding
velocities in sieve tray extractors
 , Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.; 1989;
      28(12) pp 1873 - 1878
YORK-SHEIBEL COLUMN
• YORK-SHEIBEL COLUMNUSES
  AGITATION TO MIX MATERIAL FOR
  EACH STAGE WITH SETTLING
  OCCURING OUTSIDE THE AGITATION
  ZONE
PODBEILNIAK CENTRIFUGAL
• PROVIDES A SINGLE STAGE HIGH
  g CONTACTING


                            CONTACTING
                            REGIME

     LIGHT OUT                           HEAVY IN
                 LIGHT IN    HEAVY OUT
PROCESSES THAT UTILIZE LLX
• TYPICALLY ARE THOSE IN WHICH
  DISTILLATION IS NOT ECONOMICALLY
  ATTRACTIVE
• SULFOLANE PROCESS (UOP) -RECOVERY OF
  AROMATICS, COMBINES DISTILLATION
  WITH LLE

http://www.uop
.com/objects/5
5%20Sulfolane
       .pdf
PROCESSES THAT UTILIZE LLX

• BIOTECH AND BIOPHARM
 – SEPARATION OF HIGH MOLECULAR
   WEIGHT FATTY ACIDS FROM
   VEGETABLE OILS

    Alfred Thomas, Fats and Fatty Oils,
    Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial
    Chemistry
    Copyright © 2002 by Wiley-VCH Verlag
    GmbH & Co. KGaA



 – PENICILLIN
PENICILLIN
PRODUCTION
  PROCESS


   Joseph A. Shaeiwitz,
   Joseph D. Henry, Jr.,
Biochemical Separations ,
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of
   Industrial Chemistry
   Copyright © 2002 by
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
       & Co. KGaA
SUPERCRITICAL EXTRACTION
• SOLVENT IS AT SUPERCRITICAL CONDITIONS

• SUPERCRITICAL SOLVENT HAS
  THERMODYNAMIC AND TRANSPORT
  PROPERTIES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO A LOOSE
  LIQUID OR A DENSE GAS.
  – SOLUTE EXTRACTION BASED ON SOLUBILITY IN
    SUPERCRITICAL PHASE
  – PRODUCT IS OBTAINED BY LETTING PRESSURE
    DOWN TO SUBCRITICAL CONDITIONS
• PROCESS DESCRIBED IN TEXT DECAFFINATION
  IS MORE LIKE SUPERCRITICAL LEACHING
TYPICAL SC PROCESS




•   Eldridge, R. B., Oil
    Contaminant Removal
    from Drill Cuttings by
    Supercritical
    Extraction, Ind. Eng.
    Chem. Res.; (Article);
    1996; 35(6); 1901-
    1905.

31 liquid-liquid extraction

  • 1.
    LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION MODELS/APPLICATIONS
  • 2.
    EQUILIBRIUM RELATIONSHIPS • PHASERULE FOR LLE C P 2 FOR 3 COMPONENTS / 2 PHASES 3 2 2 3 • VARIABLES INCLUDED – PRESSURE – TEMPERATURE – 4 COMPOSITIONS (2 IN EACH PHASE)
  • 3.
    LLE DIAGRAMS -FORMS • LLE CAN BE PRESENTED IN VARIOUS FORMATS – TRIANGULAR, CARTESIAN, McCABE-THIELE Cehreli, S.; Bilgin, M, .Quaternary Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium of Water + Acetic Acid + Propionic Acid + Solvent (Amyl Alcohol, Cyclohexyl Acetate, or Toluene) Systems, J. Chem. Eng. Data; (Article); 2004; 49(5); 1456-1459.
  • 4.
    OTHER LLE PLOTS Kim,J.-K.; Park, D.-W., Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium for the Quaternary System Toluene + Water + Propionic Acid + Ethyl Acetate at 25 C and Atmospheric Pressure , J. Chem. Eng. Data; (Article); 2005; 50(2); 625-629
  • 5.
    LLE PLOTS Kim, J.-K.;Park, D.-W., Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium for the Quaternary System Toluene + Water + Propionic Acid + Ethyl Acetate at 25 C and Atmospheric Pressure , J. Chem. Eng. Data; (Article); 2005; 50(2); 625-629
  • 6.
    LLE PLOTS • CARTESIANSOLVENT-FREE PLOT PERRY’S Ed. 7, PAGE 15-7
  • 7.
    SINGLE STAGE LLXMODELS • MASS BALANCES INCLUDE OVERALL AND COMPONENT • NEED EQUILIBRIUM DATA TO CALCULATE EQUILIBRIUM CHANGES • STAGE EFFICIENCY LESS THAN 100% RESULTS IN A CHANGE IN RELATIVE LOCATION OF xa VS xa* EMPLOYS LEVER RULE
  • 8.
    SINGLE STAGE LLXMODELS • TYPICAL MODEL FOR PROCESS: Pandit, P.; Basu, S., Dye and Solvent Recovery in Solvent Extraction Using Reverse Micelles for the Removal of Ionic Dyes , Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.; (Article); 2004; 43(24); 7861-7864.
  • 9.
    MULTIPLE STAGE LLXMODELS • MODEL USES OVERALL AND COMPONENT MASS BALANCES • EQUILIBRIUM DATA USED INITIALLY TO DETERMINE MINIMUM SOLVENT (L/V) RATIO (PONCHON-SAVARITT) – LOCATES ya,min ON EXTENDED EQUILIBRIUM TIE LINE PASSING THROUGH xa – USE LEVER RULE TO DETERMINE Vb,min • LOCALIZED EQUILIBRIUM VALUES CAN RESULT IN ACTUAL Vb,min VALUES BEING HIGHER AND THIS WILL BE NOTICED IN ACTUAL DESIGN IF Ncalc = ∞
  • 10.
    MULTIPLE STAGE LLXMODELS • SEQUENTIAL FEED – NORMALLY COUNTERCURRENT Nishihama, S.; Hirai, T.; Komasawa, I., Separation and Recovery of Gallium and Indium from Simulated Zinc Refinery Residue by Liquid- Liquid Extraction , Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.; (Article); 1999; 38(3); 1032- 1039.
  • 11.
    MULTIPLE STAGE LLXMODELS • DESIGN IS BASED ON RATIO OF Vb,act TO Vb,min • USED TO LOCATE ya,act • DESIGN POINT BASED IN INTERSECTION OF xa-ya LINE WITH xb-yb LINE. • STAGES ARE STEPPED OFF BY ALTERNATING BETWEEN INTERSECTIONS ON EQUILIBRIUM ENVELOPE DEFINED BY EQUILIBRIUM TIE LINES AND LINES FROM DESIGN POINT.
  • 12.
    MULTIPLE STAGE LLXMODELS • McCABE THEILE DIAGRAM CAN BE CONSTRUCTED FROM DATA FROM PONCHON-SAVARITT • ALTERNATELY, IF B & S ARE RELATIVELY IMMISCIBLE AND FLOWS ARE SPECIFIED, THEN INERT FLOW MODEL CAN BE USED FOR THE OPERATING LINE. USING COMPONENT BALANCES FOR SOLUTE, A:
  • 13.
    MULTIPLE STAGE LLXMODELS • INERT FLOWS MODEL OVERALL xa yb xb ya L` V` L` V` 1 xa 1 yb 1 xb 1 ya FOR INTERIM STAGE xa yn 1 xn ya L` V` L` V` 1 xa 1 yn 1 1 xn 1 ya • L' = NON-TRANSFERRING B IN RAFFINATE AND V' = NON- TRANSFERRING S IN EXTRACT. • CAN BE PLOTTED WITH EQUILIBRIUM LINE ON McCABE-THIELE FOR CALCULATIONS
  • 14.
    LLX EQUIPMENT • MIXER-SETTLERS A+B S EXTRACT EXTRACT LAYER FAFFINATE RAFFINATE LAYER MIXER SETTLER
  • 15.
    LLX EQUIPMENT • SPRAYTYPE EXTRACTION TOWER Chen, Liang-Huei (Chia-Nan Coll of Pharmacy and Science); Lee, Yuh- Lang, Effects of a surfactant on the mass transfer in spray-tower extraction column, Chemical Engineering Journal, v 73, n 1, 1999, p 77- 81
  • 16.
    SPRAY TYPE EXTRACTIONTOWER • USES A SPARGER FOR LIGHT LIQUID AND DISPERSER FOR HEAVY LIQUID • OVERFLOW IS LIGHT/UNDERFLOW IS HEAVY
  • 17.
    SIEVE TRAY EXTRACTIONTOWER • SIMILAR TO DISTILLATION UNIT J. Antonio Rocha, J. Carlos Cardenas, Cesar Sosa, and Jorge Rosales, Preliminary design of sieve tray extraction columns. 1. Determination of the column diameter. Flooding velocities in sieve tray extractors , Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.; 1989; 28(12) pp 1873 - 1878
  • 18.
    SIEVE TRAY EXTRACTIONTOWER • LIGHT LIQUID INVENTORIED UNDER EACH TRAY • BUBBLES OF LIGHT LIQUID PASS THROUGH COUNTERFLOW OF HEAVY LIQUID • DOWNCOMERS ARE USED TO TRANSFER HEAVY LIQUID DOWN THE COLUMN
  • 19.
    SIEVE TRAY EXTRACTIONTOWER • DOWNCOMER DESIGN J. Antonio Rocha, J. Carlos Cardenas, Cesar Sosa, and Jorge Rosales, Preliminary design of sieve tray extraction columns. 1. Determination of the column diameter. Flooding velocities in sieve tray extractors , Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.; 1989; 28(12) pp 1873 - 1878
  • 20.
    YORK-SHEIBEL COLUMN • YORK-SHEIBELCOLUMNUSES AGITATION TO MIX MATERIAL FOR EACH STAGE WITH SETTLING OCCURING OUTSIDE THE AGITATION ZONE
  • 21.
    PODBEILNIAK CENTRIFUGAL • PROVIDESA SINGLE STAGE HIGH g CONTACTING CONTACTING REGIME LIGHT OUT HEAVY IN LIGHT IN HEAVY OUT
  • 22.
    PROCESSES THAT UTILIZELLX • TYPICALLY ARE THOSE IN WHICH DISTILLATION IS NOT ECONOMICALLY ATTRACTIVE • SULFOLANE PROCESS (UOP) -RECOVERY OF AROMATICS, COMBINES DISTILLATION WITH LLE http://www.uop .com/objects/5 5%20Sulfolane .pdf
  • 23.
    PROCESSES THAT UTILIZELLX • BIOTECH AND BIOPHARM – SEPARATION OF HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT FATTY ACIDS FROM VEGETABLE OILS Alfred Thomas, Fats and Fatty Oils, Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Copyright © 2002 by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA – PENICILLIN
  • 24.
    PENICILLIN PRODUCTION PROCESS Joseph A. Shaeiwitz, Joseph D. Henry, Jr., Biochemical Separations , Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Copyright © 2002 by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
  • 25.
    SUPERCRITICAL EXTRACTION • SOLVENTIS AT SUPERCRITICAL CONDITIONS • SUPERCRITICAL SOLVENT HAS THERMODYNAMIC AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO A LOOSE LIQUID OR A DENSE GAS. – SOLUTE EXTRACTION BASED ON SOLUBILITY IN SUPERCRITICAL PHASE – PRODUCT IS OBTAINED BY LETTING PRESSURE DOWN TO SUBCRITICAL CONDITIONS • PROCESS DESCRIBED IN TEXT DECAFFINATION IS MORE LIKE SUPERCRITICAL LEACHING
  • 26.
    TYPICAL SC PROCESS • Eldridge, R. B., Oil Contaminant Removal from Drill Cuttings by Supercritical Extraction, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.; (Article); 1996; 35(6); 1901- 1905.