In general, the objective of distillation control is to maintain the desired products quality. In this paper, the performances of different one point control strategies for an aromatic distillation column have been compared through dynamic simulation. These methods are: a) Composition control using measured composition directly. This method sufferes from large sampling delay of measuring de...

A batch reactor may be combined directly with a distillation column by distilling off the light component product in order to increase the reactor temperature or to improve the product yield of an equilibrium reaction. The same amount of the light product should be removed as the amount being formed by the reaction at any time. A linearized model has been developed which describes the process b...

This paper presents two integration approaches of real-time optimization (RTO) and adaptive model predictive control (MPC) in the 2-layer and 3-layer structures and their applications to the distillation column. The 2-layer structure is constructed based on the conventional hierarchical control layer. In the 3-layer structure, the quadratic programming (QP) layer is inserted to compute the feas...

Sieve trays are widely used in the gas- liquid contactors such as distillation and absorption towers. In this article, a three-dimensional, two phase CFD model using Euler-Euler framework was developed to simulate a distillation tower with two sieve trays. Hydrodynamic simulation of air and water system in different rates of gas phase was carried out and velocity distribution parameters, clear ...

For the conceptual design of countercurrently operated reactive distillation columns, fast methods are needed to estimate potential top and bottom products. The possible column bottom product composition can be determined from the stable singular points of a batch reactive reboiler. In a similar manner the top product composition can be obtained from the stable singular points of a batch reacti...

The separation of multicomponent mixtures by batch distillation generally requires the sequential processing of several splits in one column. The sequencing of the splits and the choice of the column configuration, e.g. regular or inverse column, has a substantial impact on the economic potential of the process. Beside these structural design decisions the profitability of the process is furthe...

In this work we present an overview of the main advances in column sequence optimization in zeotropic systems, ranging from systems using only conventional columns, each with a condenser and a reboiler, to fully thermally coupled systems with a single reboiler and a single condenser in the entire sequence. We also review the rigorous design of distillation columns, or column sequences. In all t...

The Computational Mass Transfer (CMT) model is composed of the basic differential mass transfer equation, closed by auxiliary equations and the appropriate accompanying CFD formulation. In the present modified CMT model, the closing auxiliary equations in the c2 1c model given by Liu (2003) are further simplified for reducing the computational complication. By this model, the turbulent mass tra...

Robust stability and performance are the two most basic features of feedback control systems. The harmonic balance analysis technique enables to analyze the stability of limit cycles arising from a neural network control based system operating over nonlinear plants. In this work a robust stability analysis based on the harmonic balance is presented and applied to a neural based control of a non...

The usability of a state of the art CFD simulation package as a tool for analyzing the fluid-dynamic performance of internals encountered in packed distillation columns, such as initial gas distributors, liquid distributors and liquid collectors is demonstrated. A 1.4 ID column hydraulics simulator was used to provide detailed experimental evidence on the gas distribution pattern imposed by var...