This application provides the simple McCabe-Thiele method for designing binary distillation systems.

Supports:

1. • Boiling Point Graph showing Vapour-Liquid Compositions.
   

2. • q-Line calculation from component thermodynamic properties.
   

3. • Manually defining the minimum reflux ratio.
   

4. • Loading of Data files.
   

5. • Plot of Reflux versus stages to help determine the optimal value.
   

6. • Drag and Drop graphs direct to desktop.
   

7. • Configurable printing of the 3 Graphs
   

8. • Much better checking of input data before the McCabe-Thiele graph can be plotted.
   

9. • Very basic help.
   

What’s new for version 1.0.1

1. • A (blatant?) spelling mistake fixed. 500 downloads and not one email to give me any feedback!
   

Some ideas which could go into a future release
(if there’s any demand of course...):

1. • Make the application Applescript aware.
   

2. • Full Mass and Heat Balance calculation.
   

3. • Tray Efficiency Calculations.
   

4. • Support for exporting of inputted equilibrium data.
   

5. • Editing of inputted data.
   

6. • Ponchon-Savarit Model.
   

7. • Multi-component distillation model! (Well one can dream!)...
   

8. • More flexible data unit handling.
   

Feedback and suggestions are very welcome.