good day,
i am a final year(4th year) university student from malaysia currently enrolled in 'universiti malaysia pahang'. in our final year, we are required to take up 'process and plant design' subject. my group has been assigned with the task of producing 100,000MTA of cyclohexane. our process of acquiring cyclohexane is through the hydrogenation of benzene. i would love it if someone in this forum can help us with a few questions that have been playing in our mind for quite some time already.
Q1. is it possible for a mixture of hydrocarbons, in our case a mixture of hydrogen, n-hexane, cyclohexane, benzene and methylcyclopentane, to have a pressure of 40atm with a temperature of only 306.24K? in the case of a supercritical fluid(a fluid having pressure and temperature above its critical pressure and temperature), we have definitely exceeded the critical pressure, but we are not sure about the critical temperature of the hydrocarbon mixtures.
Q2. can the pressure of 40atm be maintained throughout the pipeline using a pump and a compressor?