SOLVENT SEPARATION APPARATUS AND WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION METHOD

Abstract

The present invention relates to a solvent separation apparatus and a waste heat utilization method, and the solvent separation apparatus and the waste heat utilization method according to the present application can reduce the used amount of cooling water and the used amount of steam, in a process of separating a polymer and a solvent.

Claims

1. A solvent separation apparatus comprising a stripping unit for separating a polymer from a mixture comprising a polymer and a solvent; a water tank; a cooling unit and a piping system, wherein said piping system comprises a first pipe line formed so that said mixture comprising the polymer and the solvent and water from said water tank can be mixed and then introduced into said stripping unit, and a second pipe line formed so that the mixed liquid of the water and the solvent discharged from said stripping unit can be transferred to said cooling unit, and said piping system further comprises a heat exchange part formed so that before the water discharged from said water tank is mixed with said mixture, it can be heat-exchanged with the mixed liquid before being introduced into said cooling unit.

2. The solvent separation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first pipe line further comprises a steam supply pipe.

3. The solvent separation device according to claim 1, further comprising a condenser, wherein said condenser is installed at a position where before the mixed liquid discharged from said stripping unit is heat-exchanged with said water, said mixed liquid can be condensed.

4. The solvent separation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said polymer comprises butadiene rubber, acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, solution styrene butadiene rubber or ultra high-cis poly butadiene rubber.

5. The solvent separation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said solvent comprises (normal) hexane.

6. A waste heat utilization method comprising steps of mixing a mixture comprising a polymer and a solvent with water discharged from a water tank and introducing the mixture into a stripping unit; and introducing the mixture of the water and the solvent discharged from said stripping unit into a cooling unit, wherein the method further comprises a step in which before the water discharged from said water tank is mixed with said mixture, it is heat-exchanged with a mixed liquid before being introduced into said cooling unit in a heat exchanger.

7. The waste heat utilization method according to claim 6, wherein the water discharged from said water tank and steam are mixed and introduced into the stripping unit.

8. The waste heat utilization method according to claim 6, further comprising a step in which the mixed liquid discharged from said stripping unit passes through a condenser condensing said mixed liquid, before being heat-exchanged with water discharged from said water tank.

9. The waste heat utilization method according to claim 8, wherein the stream discharged from said heat exchanger and the stream discharged from said condenser are controlled to satisfy Equation 1 below:
|TcTe|40 C.[Equation 1] where, Tc represents a temperature of the fluid discharged from said condenser, and Te represents a temperature of the stream discharged from said heat exchanger.

10. The waste heat utilization method according to claim 8, wherein the temperature of the stream discharged from said condenser is 70 to 100 C.

11. The waste heat utilization method according to claim 8, wherein the temperature of the stream discharged from said heat exchanger is 50 to 80 C.

12. The waste heat utilization method according to claim 8, further comprising a step of cooling the stream passing through said condenser and said heat exchanger to separate water.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0042] FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram for explaining a solvent separation process of a conventional stripping unit for separating a polymer and a solvent.

[0043] FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a solvent separation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

BEST MODE

[0044] Hereinafter, the present application will be described in more detail by way of examples according to the present application and comparative examples that do not comply with the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited by the following examples.

Example

[0045] As illustrated in FIG. 2, the water influent stream (61) introduced from the water supply stream (101) was heat-exchanged by introducing the top stream (201), which is discharged from the top region of the stripping column (20) and passes through the condenser (30), to the heat exchanger (60) and then supplied to the water supply stream (101) through the water effluent stream (62). The temperature of the condenser effluent stream (301) discharged from the condenser (30) was 90 C. and the temperature of the water effluent stream (62) heat-exchanged in and discharged from the heat exchanger (60) was subjected to be 70 C.

Comparative Example

[0046] As illustrated in FIG. 1, the top stream (201) discharged from the top region of the stripping column (20) was condensed through the condenser (30), then cooled through the cooler (40) and introduced into the oily water separator (50), and the waste heat from the cooling water supplied to the condenser (30) was discarded.

TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Cooling Water Used Amount of Supply (ton/hour) Steam (ton/hour) Example 270 1.5 Comparative Example 510 6.0

[0047] As shown in Table 1, when the polymer and the solvent are separated using the solvent separation apparatus and the waste heat utilization method of the present application, it can be confirmed that the used amount of cooling water of at most 47% can be reduced and the used amount of steam of at most 75% can be reduced.