Computer Aided Process Engineering Laboratory

Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Assignment 8

Submitted by : Group G : Prateek jain (09CH3013) Harsh somani (09CH3010) Nitin jhunjhunwala Prashant prabhat

Problem: 9
The dynamic solution using MATLAB will have to be conducted with the following absorption column.
L, xf V,y1

L, xb

V,yb

Where Yi= Xi; Inlet liquid use diesel & the vap. Stream is of air+ benzene. L= 4/3 kmol oil/hr; V= 5/6 kmol of liquid; M= 20/3 kmol of liquid; The schematic of a single tray (nth) & the governing equation are

i) ii) iii)

iv) v)

Find out, i) ii) iii) The steady state composition at each stage Dynamic response of step change Find out value of L1 to make y1=10 % ,5% and 1% of yb.

The algorithm is as follows : First we define the values of L,V,M and alpha . Next we create a 5x1 matrix to store dx values. We allocate the values as shown from distillation column analysis : 1. dx(1) = -(L+V*alpha)*x(1)/M + V*alpha*x(2)/M + L*xf/M; 2. dx(2) = L*x(1)/M - (L+V*alpha)*x(2)/M + V*alpha*x(3)/M; 3. dx(3) = L*x(2)/M - (L+V*alpha)*x(3)/M + V*alpha*x(4)/M; 4. dx(4) = L*x(3)/M - (L+V*alpha)*x(4)/M + V*alpha*x(5)/M; 5. x(5) = L*x(4)/M - (L+V*alpha)*x(5)/M + V*alpha*x(6)/M; Then we set the option using odeset function. The Relative tolerance value and the absolute tolerance for each tray is set so as to check the tolerance while iterating. Next we solve : y' = f(t,y), using the relative error tolerance and the absolute tolerance using the values assigned before. Plot the graphs of T vs. X for each plate.(The code for plotting the graphs in Matlab hasnt been shown here. Its in the code)

Results: X1 vs time

X2 vs time

X3

vs time :

X4 vs time.

X5 vs time.