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The document contains 5 exercises related to modeling processes: 1) Developing a model of a liquid heating system to investigate changes in heat input and feed conditions. 2) Modeling the blending of two liquid streams at different temperatures and compositions in a tank to maintain a fixed outlet concentration. 3) Deriving the general mass and energy balance equations for a tubular plug flow reactor with given reaction kinetics. 4) Computing the sampled version of a given continuous time linear time-invariant system model. 5) Employing optimization techniques to minimize the heating and cooling requirements of a process with hot and cold streams and heating/cooling utilities.

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Exercises

The document contains 5 exercises related to modeling processes: 1) Developing a model of a liquid heating system to investigate changes in heat input and feed conditions. 2) Modeling the blending of two liquid streams at different temperatures and compositions in a tank to maintain a fixed outlet concentration. 3) Deriving the general mass and energy balance equations for a tubular plug flow reactor with given reaction kinetics. 4) Computing the sampled version of a given continuous time linear time-invariant system model. 5) Employing optimization techniques to minimize the heating and cooling requirements of a process with hot and cold streams and heating/cooling utilities.

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Exercise 1 : Consider a vessel (Figure below), where a liquid feed is heated.

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and liquid are withdrawn. It is intended that a model of this process should be
developed to investigate changes in the heat input Q from the steam coil as well as
changes in feed conditions of temperature and composition. Develop a problem
description for this situation discussing the necessary ingredients for the modeling.

Fig : Liquid heating system

Exercise 2: Consider the process of blending two streams of liquid in a tank where all
streams can vary in flowrate. The main stream (1) contains two components (A and B)
whilst the second stream (2) contains only component B. Both streams are at different
temperatures. The goal is to add stream 2 in order to maintain a fixed concentration of B
in the outlet from the blending tank. The outlet from the tank is pumped under level
control. Figure below shows the process.

Develop the model in a structured way following the model development steps.
Exercise 3 : Develop the general mass and energy balance equations for a tubular plug flow
reactor, where the reaction kinetics are given by the following general expression:

Assume that the inlet flowrate is Fin, inlet concentration is CAin and temperature Ti. The reactor will be
cooled or heated depending on whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic. Give the initial
conditions and boundary conditions for such a system.

Exercise 4 : Given a continuous time LTI system model in the form of

Compute the sampled version of the above model

Exercise 5 : Consider a process that has two process hot streams (H1 and H2), two process
cold streams (C1 and C2), a heating utility (HU1, which is a saturated vapor that loses its latent
heat of condensation), and a cooling utility (CU1). The problem data are given in Table bellow.
The cost of the heating utility is $4/106 kJ added, and the cost of the coolant is $7/10 6 kJ. A
value of ∆T min= 10K is used. Employ optimization techniques to determine the minimum
heating and cooling requirements for the process.

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