New simultaneous modular method for calculating multistage multicomponent separation processes

✍ Scribed by Z. Fonyo; H. Nishimura; Y. Yamashita

• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 724 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-1541
• DOI: 10.1002/aic.690290404

✦ Synopsis

A new flexible method has been developed for modelling multistage multicomponent separation processes. The method is based on the simultaneous modular approach and can be referred to as a quasilinear two-level modelling. The network is solved within each iteration as a linear one, and after each network solution the split streams are updated modularly using nonlinear submodels. The method is suited for modelling the most important separation processes with arbitrary structure and permits to use different models for the subunits or processing units. Illustrative examples and computational results are presented showing the efficiency, flexibility and capability of the method.