BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY

BAHIR DAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF CHEMICAL AND FOOD ENGINEERING

ASPEN PLUS assignment one

Ermias Abelneh BDU1300903PR

Birhane Getachew BDU1300902

Mekete Yitayew BDU1300891

March 2022

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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 1. AspEn plus property environment

A, property environment
For this question we need to stay under “Properties” environment, only components and the
property model are needed at this stage for analysis, estimation, and regression purposes.
Steps
A. entering components

Before performing any step 1st we need to specify each component in involved in the process.

2, SPECIFYING THE PROPERTY METHOD

Since the Wilson activity coefficient model is given as a property method is given our task is to
select it from bank <Method>, specification

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A. T-xy plot at a constant pressure (1.013 bar) ethanol/water: binary analysis

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 T-xy diagram for ETHANOL/H2O
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Temperature, C

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0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40 0.45 0.50 0.55 0.60 0.65 0.70 0.75 0.80 0.85 0.90 0.95 1.00
Liquid/vapor mole fraction, ETHANOL

b. xy plot based on the data obtained in part (a): binary analysis

c. P-xy plot at a constant temperature (90oC)

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2 finding the amount of liquid and vapor product from flash 2 according to the given operating
conditions: for this question ASPEN plus simulate like as follows
Step 1 as usual specify the components

Property method sysopo

Results

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The amounts of liquid and vapor products and their compositions in terms of mole flow rate,
mole fraction and mass flow rate

2. Objective: to separate the feed mixture into vapor and liquid

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Results
A, the amounts of liquid and vapor outlets and their compositions @1 atm and 110oC

B,
A, the amounts of liquid and vapor outlets and their compositions @1.5atm and 120oC

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4, objective: to separate the mixture of hydrocarbon by flash drum using ASPEN+

Specifying components: as usual

Property method SYSOPO

Simulation environment: flash 2

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Running the simulation

Stream Results: in terms of mole flows and mole fractions

5. i think it has some problems in this question doctor.

Since this is the binary mixture we can find dew point temperature and bubble point temperature
by using property environment <binary analysis>

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From the graph the dew point temperature and bubble point temperature@ 0.4 mole fraction of
toluene and 101.3kpa of the feed stream is 101.7℃ and 101.2℃ respectively

If we repeat the same process at 1.5atm we can get buble point temperature 114℃ and dew point
temperature 107℃

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6. Objective: to find the dew point and bubble point temperature of the three mixtures

Steps: now let us see other methods of determining the dew point and bubble point temperature
using simulation environment since we do have 3 mixtures.

Input specifications

Main flows sheet

For bubble point the sum of vapor fraction is 0 at 1 at so the buble point T IS 89.7399℃

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for For dew point the sum of vapor fraction is 1 at 1atm so the dew point T IS 104.33℃

7 Compute the bubble point and dew point temperatures of a solution of hydrocarbons with the
following composition at 345 kN/m2(see Table 1.4).

The ideal solution with a low rate of 100 kmol/hr enters at 50oC and 1 atm.

a. Specify the component and properties method under properties environment

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Thermodynamic property method selection

For this question we need to find thermodynamic property method since it doesn’t give the
method

Let us start to find suitable property method by using method assistances

So according to the recommended methods we can have SRK, LK-plock,HYSYS PR etc. let us
select SRK
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And also let us fix the equipment model. Since it is the mixture which is approximate boiling
point let us use separator flash 2 separator

When the liquid heated at constant pressure slowly the temperature at which the first vapor
bubble form is called bubble point: at bubble point ∑ 𝑌𝑖 = 1

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8. To calculate bubble point pressure of the mixture

SRK method

Input

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Steamnbs free water method

Result

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Therefore the bubble point pressure is 42.3551atm

9. Objective two show the product stream from the decanter by ASPENE+ simulation
Component specification

Method NRTL

Let us assume our input condition is 25 and 1 atm

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Two product streams are simulated as below

10. Objective: separating the feed component into two by using sep two ASPEN+ block

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 Component ID T B

PENTANE 0.999 0.001

ETHANOL 0.9 0.1

H2O 0.057466481 0.942533519

11.A dryer, operates at 200oF and 1 atm. Apply the SOLIDS base property method and simulate
the dryer model (Flash2) to compute the recovery of water in the top product.

Simulation steps

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Result summary

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