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Process Simulation Essentials
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What are we going to cover today?
• What does a process simulator do?• Best Practices• Common Mistakes
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What does a process simulator do?
• Heat and mass balances around unit operations & whole processes
• Calculation of what happens with vapor, liquid, solid in unit operations – cooling, heating, separating or changing phase
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Mass & Energy Balance
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What does a process simulator do?
• Heat and mass balances around unit operations & whole processes
• Calculation of what happens with vapor, liquid, solid in unit operations – cooling, heating, separating or changing phase
• Have databanks of – physical properties of chemicals– thermodynamic models for vapor-liquid equilibria – mathematical models for common unit operations
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Databank, Equations, Unit Ops
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What do engineers do with process simulators?
• Model existing facilities– Parts or whole plants– Troubleshoot issues– Optimize energy/material use & costs– Increase throughput– Study what happens if conditions are different
• Connect to control system for monitoring / control
• Design new facilities
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Best Practices
• Start with good physical property data• Choose & validate your thermodynamic model• Build model one step at a time• Handle recycles with care
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Start with good physical property data
Heat capacity: experimental vs predicted
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Temperature (dF)
Cp
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CP A
CP B
Which heat capacity curve is correct?
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How to determine if properties are good
• Operational data is great• Pilot plant data is good• Lab data is ok• Literature data is… sometimes not bad• Predicted data is…brave
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Learn how to choose thermodynamics
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How do you choose your thermo model?
• Experience with thermo is necessary• Articles / books can teach you basics• Compare to data for important
systems
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Validate your thermodynamic model
• Inspect TPxy diagrams• Run some flash calculations & inspect
results• Have a qualitative idea of what the phase
separation will look like
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Learn how to read Txy, Pxy, Txx, xy diagrams
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One step at a time!
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Start simple
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Add piece-by-piece & converge at each step
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Handle recycles with care
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Calculations get more complicated
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Put in a good initial estimate
Specify this flow rate to stabilize calculations!
Let the simulator calculate this flowrate
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Start off with loop open to get estimate
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Common Mistakes
• Matching plant data– How accurate are the measuring devices? Last
calibrated?– Were all measurements taken at same steady
state conditions?– Are you ignoring trace chemicals?– Neglecting to examine different conditions
(cooling water can average 90˚F in Houston summer)
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Other Common Mistakes
• Simulators get played like a video game– Converged doesn’t mean correct
• Understand your process before modeling– If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll get the
wrong answer• These are tools; you are the engineer
– Garbage in = garbage out– Use engineering judgment, not necessarily default
options
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Takeaways from today
• Process simulators are powerful tools to help make it easier to solve a wide range of engineering problems
• You will encounter these tools when you graduate & should get familiar with them
• Like any tool, it’s important to know how to properly use it to get the best results
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Learn more!
• Use a simulator to revisit homework problems!• Find a mentor! Find examples!• Learn Tpxy plots…applied thermodynamics…• Read a book!
– Edwards, _Chemical Engineering in Practice_, kindle edition.
– Seider, Lewin, _Product and Process Design Principles_– Kaes, _Refinery Process Modeling_
• Read a magazine article!