Abstract:
Allyl chloride is a fundamental material for producing epoxy glue that is applied in various industries e.g. automotive, electronics, etc. This study focuses on the extractive distillation process of allyl chloride in a case study company. The objective is to reduce the waste of the distillation process and maintain the purity of the allyl chloride at 98 percentages by weight. The historical records show that the average waste of the process was 278.8 kg./hr. There are 3 main factors effected the behavior of the distillation process are (1) temperature of the mixture, (2) volume of steam, and (3) reflux flow rate of allyl chloride. This study therefore applies the method of 2 k factorial design of experiment to find the optimal factors in the distillation process. The experiment has done 3 replications. The result of this study shows that the optimal factors are as follow: (1) temperature of the mixture is at 65°C, (2) volume of steam is at 30 cu.m., and (3) reflux flow rate of allyl chloride is 2,850 kg./hr. It can reduce the average waste of the distillation process down to 256.4 kg./hr. and the purity of the allyl chloride is 98.25 percentage by weight.