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Aspen Plus Tutorial 2 Absorption Column Simulation PDF
Aspen Plus Tutorial 2 Absorption Column Simulation PDF
Note: The order that you attach the feed blocks is very important. If they are not numbered as seen
in the illustration, you will have problems later.
3. Attach the Vapor Distillate output from the top of the RADFRAC model to one of the product
output arrows. This arrow should be labeled 3.
4. Attach the Bottoms output from the bottom of the RADFRAC model to one of the product
output arrows. This arrow should be labeled 4.
5. Hit the Next button, enter the title of “Example Adsorption Problem”.
6. Hit the Next button again. Enter the following in the Comp ID field:
METHANE
ETHANE
PROPANE
N-BUTANE
N-DECANE
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7. Hit the Next button, and the Properties-Specifications window should appear.
8. Choose NRTL for the Property Method.
9. Use the Next button to get to the Stream-1-Input form.
10. In this simulation Stream 1 is the lean oil absorbing medium. This is because it is feeding into
the top, or first stage, of the RADFRAC model. Enter the following values:
Temp: 100 F
Pres: 5 ATM
Composition Basis: MOLE-FRAC
N-BUTANE: .005
N-DECANE: .995
Total MOLE-Flow: 10000 LBMOL/HR
Note: Make sure that you have changed the pressure units to ATM and the you have changed the
composition basis to Mole-Frac.
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Note: Make sure that you have changed the pressure units to ATM and the you have changed the
composition basis to Mole-Frac.
Note: Do not enter zero in the other component MOLE-FRAC fields, just leave them blank.
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22. Now open the Blocks-B1-Convergance form. Select the Advanced tab.
23. Change the Absorber option from No to Yes.
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29. Hit the Next button and the Blocks-B1-DesignSpecs-Components form will appear.
30. Under Available components select PROPANE and move it to Selected components using the
> button.
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31. Hit the next button and the Blocks-B1-DesignSpecs-Feed/Product Streams form will appear.
32. Under available product streams select 3 and move it to selected stream using the > button. The
completed design specification states that you wish for the mole fraction of propane in the
product stream number 3 to be equal to .01.
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33. Click the Next button and the Blocks-B1-Vary-Object Manager will appear. Hit the New…
button and hit OK to accept the default vary ID of 1.
34. This will open the Blocks-B1-Vary-1-Specifications form. Set the Adjusted variable type to
Feed rate.
35. Set the stream name to 1. This means that you are going to vary the feed rate of the lean oil
absorbing medium.
36. Set the following values:
Lower bound: 5000 lbmol/hr
Upper bound: 20000 lbmol/hr
Maximum step size: 1000
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37. Save the simulation and then run the simulation. Before running the simulation you may want to
go to the Setup-Report Options-Stream form and the Mole Fraction Basis output. This will make
interpreting the results easier.
38. You will notice that the mole fraction of propane is stream 3 is .01 as we specified, and that the
molar flow basis of stream 1 is larger than the 10000 lbmol/hr value that we initially specified.
This indicates that the vary block had to increase the feed rate to meet the desired specification.
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