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Optimal?Design?of?a?Reactive?Distillation?Column?Edwin?Zondervan,?Mayank?Shah*?and?André?B.?de?Haan??Eindhoven?University?of?Technology,?Department?of?Chemistry?and?Chemical?Engineering,?P.O.?Box?513,?5600MB,?Eindhoven,?theNetherlands,?m.shah@tue.nl?In?this?work?we?develop?a?MINLP?model?that?can?be?used?to?optimize?the?design?of?reactive?distillation?column.?MINLP?model?is?formulated?in?GAMS?in?such?a?way?that?it?can?be?solved?locally?and?globally.?In?the?RD?column?a?component?A?is?converted?into?product?B?while?vapour?and?liquid?are?assumed?to?be?in?equilibrium.?The?objective?is?to?find?a?design?for?this?process?that?minimizes?the?total?costs?(consisting?of?capital?and?operational?costs).?The?design?variables?of?interest?are?the?total?numberof?stages,?the?number?of?reactive?stages,?the?location?of?the?reactive?stages,?the?feed?tray?location?and?the?reflux?ratio.???Keywords:?Reactive?distillation,?Design,?Optimization,?MINLP?1.?Introduction?Reactive?distillation?(RD)?is?a?matured?technology?that?combines?reaction?and?separation?in?a?single?processing?unit.?RD?has?distinct?advantages;?normally?the?equipment?is?much?smaller?than?conventional?equipment,?the?energy?requirements?are?lower?and?the?conversion?of?the?product?is?higher?as?the?products?are?immediately?removed?by?distillation.?Krishna?et?al.?(2002)?give?a?more?complete?overview?of?reactive?distillationHowever, design and control of RD is a complex process (Al-Arfaj and Luyben (2000)). Especially the optimal design of such a system requires accurate process models that lead to a computationally demanding mathematical problem.Although?the?problem?has?been?studied?in?the?scientific?literature,?most?of?the?time?the?proposed?models?are?strong?simplifications?of?reality?and?most?authors?agree?that?the?morecomplex?models?cannot?be?solved?to?global?optimality.In?Jackson?and?Grossmann?(2001)?an?optimization?approach?for?the?optimal?design?of?a?reactive?distillation?column?is?proposed,?which?shows?that?disjunctive?progr