Application of Simulation to Process Synthesis and Design
- Introduction to process simulation and main components of a simulator
- Basics of flowsheeting and their numerical principles: Equation oriented and sequential modular approaches, recycle streams and solvers properties
- Thermodynamics in process simulation: properties of pure components and mixtures, estimation of physical properties, phase equilibrium regression for pure properties, regression for binary interactions, equation of state selection for process simulation
- Modeling and simulation of conventional unit operations: stoichiometry reactors, equilibrium reactors, kinetic reactors, heat exchange operations, single and multistage operations, pressure change operations
- Principles of process synthesis
- Principles of synthesis and design of reaction systems and reactors
- Principles of synthesis and design of simple distillation systems
- Design of distillation for azeotropic mixtures: homogenous azeotropic distillation, pressure swing distillation, heterogenous azeotropic distillation, extractive distillation