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Tutorial 5: Model a Flowsheet


Visual Cue
Narration
Slide number 1

Title slide

Welcome to the tutorial on how to model a Flowsheet in ASCEND
Show Slide 2 In this tutorial,we will learn how to
  • Model a mixer and execute it
  • Model a reactor
  • Connect different components in a single flowsheet
  • Run the flowsheet
Slide number 3

System Requirement

Here I am using
  • Ubuntu Linux OS v. 12.04
  • ASCEND v. 0.9.8
Slide number 4

Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial, user must have basic knowledge of
  • Linux and
  • ASCEND

To know more about ASCEND please visit ascend4.org


For relevant tutorials, please visit our website http://spoken-tutorial.org

Slide number 5

Show the complete Flowsheet

Let's begin the tutorial with the example problem 10.32 from the book 'Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes by Felder and Rousseau.'


This example is available on page 508 of the book.


We will model the 3 components of this Flowsheet- mixer, reactor and separator.


We will then assemble them to model the complete flowsheet.

Slide number 6

Reactions

Here Ethane is dehydrogenated to ethylene and acetylene in the following pair of reactions.


The equilibrium conditions are also given as follows


Here yi signifies mole-fraction

Slide number 7

Flowsheet

Let's now model the mixer in ASCEND.


In mixer', a fresh feed of ethane with n0 (n knot) moles is mixed with a recycled stream of ethane with n6 'moles


The outlet stream consists of 100 moles of ethane.

Slide number 8

Equations for Mixer

Thus the equation for mixer is

n0+n6 =100

I already have the code formixer in a text file.

Let me explain the code.

Open code file in text editor Open the file flowsheet.a4c in a text editor.
REQUIRE "atoms.a4l";

MODEL mixer;

Here we require atoms.a4l library to use the variable type 'mole'.

I have named the model as mixer.

n_0, n_6 and n_tot.

IS_A mole;

Let’s name the three streams of mixer as:

n_0 (n knot), n_6 and n_tot.


Define the streams as a mole.

n_0+n_6=n_tot; Now we define the equation for mixer by simple mole balance as :

n_0+n_6 = n_tot;

Note that label like 'equation 1' is not necessary to write.


But this helps in debugging the code.

METHOD specify;

FIX n_tot ; 

END specify;
Let's now define METHODS for solving the mixer.


Under METHOD specify, we fix the variable n_tot

METHOD values;

n_tot := 100.0 {mole};

END values;

Under METHOD values, n_tot is assigned the value 100 mole.
METHOD seqmod;

RUN clear;

RUN specify; 

    RUN values;

END seqmod;

END mixer;

METHOD seqmod signifies setting the model in sequential modular simulation.

This signifies that given feed stream and unit operations specification, ASCEND will calculate the intermediate and outlet streams.

Highlight as per narration. Under this method,

RUN specify and

RUN values

Highlight as per narration. Now END the model mixer


Note that model mixer is not square, as there is one equation and two unknowns.


Thus, one can’t solve the model mixer separately in ASCEND.

Slide number 9

Flowsheet

Let us now model the second component of the flowsheet i.e. the reactor
Point as per narration. As you can see, there is one stream entering the reactor and four streams leaving it.


Here ethane is dehydrogenated to ethylene and acetylene, so the outstream consists of ethane, ethylene, acetylene and hydrogen.

Slide number 10

Equations for Reactor

These are the set of equations to be used for modelling the reactor.


To understand these equations, please refer the textbook.


Now let’s look at the code for reactor.

Open flowsheet.a4c in a text editor and highlight the code text sequentially I have named the model as reactor.


Define all the input and the output streams as a mole.

Highlight as per narration. The reaction extent ksi1 and ksi2 is also defined as mole
Highlight as per narration. Equations 2-6 are defined as shown in the slide
Highlight as per narration. Note that equations 7 and 8 are written as
  • numerator of the left hand side equal to
  • right hand side into denominator of the right hand side

We don’t use division to avoid a poor initialization for solving the problem.

Highlight as per narration. Now under METHODS section, we define methods in a similar way as that for mixer.
Highlight as per narration. Under values section, instead of giving a direct value, we initialize the value of the reaction extent ksi1 and ksi2.

We thus give a nominal value of ksi1 and ksi2

Highlight as per narration. We also set upper bound for ksi1 and ksi2.

For assigning the nominal value, we write

ksi_1.nominal is equal to ksi_1

Highlight as per narration. Similarly, for assigning the upper bound, we write

ksi_1.upper_bound is equal to n_tot into 2

Highlight as per narration. Now, END the Method values.


Define the METHOD seqmod and END the reactor.

Slide 11

Assignment: Equations for Separator

Now these are the set of equations for separation process.
Highlight as per narration. Using these, model the separator on similar lines as that of mixer.
Highlight as per narration. Once we have modelled each component of the flowsheet, let’s now wire them together.


I have the code for modelling the flowsheet.

Let me explain the logic of connecting different components via code.

Open flowsheet.a4c in a text editor and highlight the code text sequentially I have named the model as flowsheet


We define

m1 IS_A mixer;

r1 IS_A reactor; and

s1 IS_A separator;

Note that the variable mixer, reactor and separator is used by ASCEND from the models defined before.
Highlight as per narration. Now let us state that
  • output from mixer is same as input for the reactor and
  • the output of the reactor is same as the input to the separator.
Highlight as per narration. We equate the two by the help of the operator

ARE underscore THE underscore SAME

Highlight as per narration. ARE_THE_SAME is a merging operator.


It merges different models or variables into one.


For example, we write

m1.n_tot,r1.n_tot ARE_THE_SAME;


This saves us from creating additional different equations.

Highlight as per narration. Under METHODS section, we will again write the same methods as specify, values and seqmod.
Highlight as per narration. Note that under METHODS specify and values, we run methods for each individual component under each method.


For example, under METHOD specify we have written

RUN m1.specify and

RUN r1.specify

This command will execute the specify method for mixer under the METHODS specify for flowsheet

Highlight as per narration. Now define the method seqmod and END the flowsheet
Open the model in ASCEND Open this model in ASCEND.


Now click on m1 mixer.

You will see ASCEND has assigned some default values to the streams n_0, n_6 and n_tot

Highlight as per narration. Now under METHODS section, click on seqmod, then click on RUN

Now click on the Solve icon.

Highlight as per narration. You will see the message converged in the panel below.


Highlight as per narration. Now click on m1 mixer.

You will see ASCEND has calculated the values for the streams n_0 (n knot) and n_6.

It is also satisfying the equation n_0 (n knot) +n_6 = n_tot

We encourage the learner to observe the values of remaining two components before and after solving the flowsheet for better understanding.
Open slide number 12

Summary

Let’s summarize. In this tutorial, we have learnt, how to
  • Model a mixer
  • Model a reactor
  • Connect different components in a flowsheet
  • Run the flowsheet
Slide Number 13

About the spoken tutorial project

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Slide number 14

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Slide number 15

Acknowledgements

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Slide number 16

Thanks you

This is Priya Bagde from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for joining.

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