Hello, I have currently a liquid-liquid extractor for biodiesel production that I am trying to water wash a FAME mix with water at room temperature. The system isnt working right since FAME is coming down the bottom stream where I neutralize my catalyst of NaOH. I want it to go to the right stream where I then distill further. Another problem is that aspen is not detecting that the NaOH reacts with water as well as methanol and other components, but the LL extract cannot have reactions added. To counter this I tried making a Ternary Phase Diagram but it won't let me since I am working with electrolytes. What could I possibly do? I attached photos below so you can see my process.

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