Aspen Plus flowsheet

Figure 6.34 shows the Aspen Plus flowsheet with these two adiabatic reactors installed. The empty reactor is 10 m in length. The catalyst-filled reactor is 20 m in length. The reactor effluents for the two cases are identical. Control valves are installed on the gas feedline and the gas reactor effluent line. Figure 6.35 shows the Catalyst page tab window under Setup for the reactor with catalyst. The catalyst properties are specified. 

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Figure 4.12a shows a simulation flowsheet with two recycle loops for ASPEN PLUS. Flowsheets for CHEMCAD and PRO/II are identical except for the subroutine (or model) names for the units. Note that no recycle convergence units are shown. This is typical of the simulation flowsheets displayed by most process simulators. The flowsheet for HYSYS.PIant is an exception because the recycle convergence unit(s) are positioned by the user and appear explicitly in the flowsheet. For ASPEN PLUS, CHEMCAD, and PRO/Il, to complete the simulation flowsheet, either one or two convergence units are inserted, as described below. Note that a single convergence unit suffices because stream S6 is common to both loops, as illustrated in Figure 4.12b. Stream S6 is tom into two streams, S6 and S6, with guesses provided for the variables in S6. Since no units are outside of the loops, all units are involved in the iterative loop calculations. The calculation sequence is...

In this example, the ammonia reactor loop in Figure 5.3 is simulated using ASPEN PLUS to examine the effect of the purge-to-recycle ratio on the compositions and flow rates of the purge and recycle streams. For the ASPEN PLUS flowsheet below, the following specifications are made ... 

Figure 9.25 ASPEN PLUS flowsheet for the cyclohexane process.

The first petroleum fractionator simulated is a simple distillation column that removes some of the light material in the crude. Figure 11.16 gives the Aspen Plus flowsheet of this unit. There are two crude feed streams that are combined and heated in a furnace in which the feed is partially vaporized before entering the bottom of the column. There is no reboiler. Live steam is introduced in the bottom of the column to strip out some of the light components in the bottoms stream, which is fed to a pipestill to be considered in Section 11.4. 

Figure 14.5 shows the Aspen Plus flowsheet with the solvent recycle loop open. The makeup flow rates of water and MEA were estimated from the losses of these components. After exporting to Aspen Dynamics, the block VDUM and the streams CALC and SOLVENT are deleted. Then stream LEAN is connected to mixer Ml. ... 

We click on Start and select Programs, Aspen Tech, Aspen Engineering Suite, Aspen Plus 2004, and Aspen Plus User Interface. The window shown in Figure 2.26 opens. A Blank Simulation is selected, and clicking OK opens a blank flowsheet shown in Figure 2.27. 

Figure 2.27 Aspen Plus window with flowsheet.

The tubular reactor in Aspen Plus is called RPLUG and is installed on the flowsheet as shown in Figure 5.21. Two different tubular reactors with their feed and product streams are shown. The five possible types of reactors are listed on the Specifications page tab when Setup under the reactor block is clicked. 

The control structure shown in Figure 6.57 is installed on the flowsheet. The feed is flow-controlled. The outlet temperature is controlled by manipulating the coolant flowrate. Note that the OP signal is sent to both of the control valves on the coolant stream, opening and closing them simultaneously. The setup works in the simulations, but it is not what would be used in a real physical system. A pressure-driven simulation in Aspen Plus requires that valves be placed on both the inlet and outlet coolant streams. In a real system, the cooling water would be drawn from a supply header, which operates a fixed pressure. A single control valve would be used, either on the inlet or on the outlet, to manipulate the flowrate of coolant. 

In order to focus on the main issues of process integration, we disregard the distillation column for heavies, as well as the transalkylation section. A preliminary simulated flowsheet in Aspen Plus [9] is shown in Figure 6.8, with values of temperatures, pressures and heat duties. The fresh feed of propylene is llOkmol/h. Note that design specifications are used for the fine tuning of the simulation blocks. The fresh benzene is added in the recycle loop as makeup stream so as to keep the recycle flow rate constant. This approach makes the convergence easier. 

Figure 6.15 presents a compact flowsheet based on catalytic distillation, as simulated with Aspen Plus [9], Benzene and propylene are fed in countercurrent in... 

For the purpose of conceptual design of the bioethanol plant, Aspen Plus will be used as the flowsheet simulator. However, most of the key components involved in the process are not defined in the standard Aspen Plus property databases, and therefore their physical property data are not available. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has developed a database that includes a complete set of properties for the currently identifiable compounds in the ethanol process [28]. 

Throughout this book, we have seen that when more than one species is involved in a process or when energy balances are required, several balance equations must be derived and solved simultaneously. For steady-state systems the equations are algebraic, but when the systems are transient, simultaneous differential equations must be solved. For the simplest systems, analytical solutions may be obtained by hand, but more commonly numerical solutions are required. Software packages that solve general systems of ordinary differential equations— such as Mathematica , Maple , Matlab , TK-Solver , Polymath , and EZ-Solve —are readily obtained for most computers. Other software packages have been designed specifically to simulate transient chemical processes. Some of these dynamic process simulators run in conjunction with the steady-state flowsheet simulators mentioned in Chapter 10 (e.g.. SPEEDUP, which runs with Aspen Plus, and a dynamic component of HYSYS ) and so have access to physical property databases and thermodynamic correlations. 

In this study the feasibility of implementing ceramic membranes on an industrial scale in the styrene production process is treated. Therefore, a model has been set up in the flowsheeting package ASPEN PLUS , which describes a styrene process production plant. Some modelling has been done with different types of membrane reactors in different reactor section configurations to investigate the influence on the performance of the production of styrene. 

In this paper, we present a detailed process analysis of the Cu-Cl cycle as a potential alternative of the S-I cycle. Thermodynamic feasibility of the reactions involved in tliis cycle has been evaluated by HSC Chemistry 5.11 (commercially available thermodynamic database software). Simulation flowsheet has been developed by using chemical analysis simulator ASPEN PLUS 12.1. 

On the model level, we distinguish between a type (or class) level and an instance level, like standard UML does. On the type level, document models for specific types of documents are defined. They are expressed as class hierarchies describing the documents underlying type systems. In our example, documents containing simulation models for Aspen Plus and flowsheets for Comos PT are defined. To be able to perform an integration of these documents, link types that relate classes contained in the documents class hierarchies are defined. All occurrences of links in further definitions on lower levels are instances of these link tjqjes and are thereby constrained by these types. 

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