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GUI for distillation columns: McCabe and Thiele Method.

16 Mar 2006 (Updated 29 Jan 2009)

GUI tool for estimating the theoretical number of plates of a distillation column

File Information
Description	This GUI uses a constant relative volatility (alpha) to estimate the equilibrium curve. From there, the GUI uses the "McCabe and Thiele Graphical Method" to estimate the ideal number of plates in the column. A reference is provided in the GUI: look in Help/About. Comments, suggestions or bugs, please write to cgelmiREMOVE@gmail.com
Acknowledgements	The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission: McCabe-Thiele Method for an Ideal Binary Mixture
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.1.0 (R14SP3)
Zip File Content
Other Files	MCT.fig, MCT.m

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Everyone's Tags	chemistry, distillation column, mccabe and thiele method, number of plates, physics
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Comments and Ratings (21)
19 Mar 2006	Swapnil G	Great tool for teaching distilation
20 Mar 2006	Jorge Gaete	Excellent tool. Easy to use with a great visual interface.
20 Mar 2006	César Sáez	Excellent tool. Very useful to the college teaching.
20 Mar 2006	Mary S.	Thanks! Excellent for mass transfer homeworks!!
18 Apr 2006	Zhuoyang Lian	Excellent work. Not an easy work Claudio :)
03 Sep 2006	javad tamam	it fail without error if compositions is grater than unity(1)
29 Sep 2006	Claudio Gelmi	New error checks were incorporated in the GUI. Thanks for pointing that out.
18 Nov 2006	ELOY MEDICI
18 Jan 2007	Felipe Soto	Muy útil y buena herramienta. Gracias.
27 Jan 2007	Gustavo Tapia
12 Jul 2007	Freddy Fuentes	Excelent for homework
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07 Oct 2007	Rodrigo Diaz	Un programa muy bien hecho y util. Gracias por compartirlo.
06 Nov 2007	safetyali mohamed	ali safety
06 Nov 2007	ali safety
06 Nov 2007	Rodrigo Soto	Parece que los señores anónimos que evaluaron la función negativamente, no saben ni usan MATLAB. Una pena el poco aporte constructivo. Para mí ha sido una excelente adición al FileExchange. Aparte de estar muy bien programada. Gracias por compartir.
22 Feb 2008	Morne Booysen	nice and easy
22 Mar 2008	Yo Yung	good tool!
06 Oct 2008	Javier Gomez	Simply Exellent
10 Oct 2008	Miguel Arriola

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Updates
05 Sep 2006	- New error checks were incorporated (e.g., molar fraction and feed quality). - The "Help text box" was programmed in a more efficient way.
18 Aug 2008	- More precision was given to the equilibrium curve and theoretical stages.
30 Oct 2008	- A better way of detecting non-feasible distillations was incorporated. Thanks Jakub Kopáč.
29 Jan 2009	- Help's information.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
chemistry	Claudio Gelmi	22 Oct 2008 08:18:43
physics	Claudio Gelmi	22 Oct 2008 08:18:43
number of plates	Claudio Gelmi	22 Oct 2008 08:18:43
distillation column	Claudio Gelmi	22 Oct 2008 08:18:43
mccabe and thiele method	Claudio Gelmi	22 Oct 2008 08:18:43

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