Thesis

 This study deals with reducing energy requirement in multicomponent distillation processes using heat pump technique. Heat pump with and without split tower technique was considered for two ternary (Methanol-Ethanol-Water and Acetone-methanol-Water), and one quaternary feed systems (n-Hexane – MCP – Ethanol and Benzene)and many variables have considered  such as operating pressure, feed composition, and fractional recovery.  The separation was carried out using one configuration for each feed system according to their non-ideality.

The aim of this research is to study the packed bed using theoretical methods and experiments. Five types of glass spheres were used which represent the packed bed with diameters of(d972, d2 = 10.164, d3= 14.772, d = 20.614,d54 = 25.448 mm).The theoretical methods which were given by latif consist of calculating the pore diameter, mean pore diameter and the probability due to (number,length, area, and volume).

Binary mixtures of three, selected Iraqi crude oils had been subjected to density measurements at temperatures 15, 25, 30C and precise data had been acquired on the volumetric behavior of these systems. The results are reported in terms of equations for excess specific volumes of the mixtures.

 The removal of phenol pollutant from water was studied using continuous adsorption process onto MS type 13X. This adsorbent was treated with urea and thiourea to enhance its adsorption ability towards phenol.The preparation step was made by mixing of saturated solution of urea or thiourea, with powder molecular sieve 13X and adding sodium silicat as binder to give homogenous mixture in approximate weight percent, 20 wt% urea or thiourea, 30 wt% binder, 50 wt% MS13X.