Computer Aided Design of Distillation Column Suitable for Classroom Teaching

Abstract

This article presents an integrated approach for design of distillation column which is suitable for classroom teaching. The instructor of a course may seldom need to generate multiple sets of design problems for class assignments. With the present approach he/she has to provide only the input data for individual problems in an MS-Excel® spreadsheet. The methodology integrates the Mail-Merge feature of MSWord® and MS-Excel,® coupled with user-defined function in Microsoft® Visual C++ to generate multiple sets of solution for design of the distillation column. The MATLAB® language for technical computing generates graphical outputs of those design problems. The philosophy of this approach may be extended to other design problems too.