Economic analysis for solvent recovery system (solvent as cleaning liquid for the processing equipment)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to aggravate more reuse and recover material in chemical or in any industry that use mixing process or cleaning equipment that use solvent. This study also gave new approach on sustainable solution that assess by economic advantage. In many industry solvents is used for cleaning the processing equipment's to avoid cross contamination from one batch to the other, due to the solvent scrap is being generated in the cleaning process. In often times, this scrap has been thrown away since it is already contaminated with the products, so it is being considered as scrap. In order to minimize the scrap, recovery of solvent is one method to recover the solvent. For the research, the distillation process was proposed, so the contaminated solvent can be purified so it can be use again for cleaning, or in some case it can be also use again as raw material for products. The solvent recovery is not only minimizing carbon foot print but also provides more sustainability. The solvent recovery gives also cost advantage for the industry.