Reactores Quimicos

Aspen Plus™ Workshop
for
Reaction Engineering and Design

H. Scott Fogler
sfogler@umich.edu

Nihat M. Gurmen
gurmen@umich.edu

3/12/2002
The University of Michigan
Department of Chemical Engineering
Ann Arbor, MI

INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................................................3
What is a Process Flowsheet.....................................................................................................................................3
Advantages of using a process flowsheet simulator..............................................................................................3
Disadvantages of using a process flowsheetsimulator........................................................................................3
History...........................................................................................................................................................................3
Aspen Plus™ at The University of Michigan..........................................................................................................4
INTERFACEBASICS........................................................................................................................................................5
REACTOR MODELS ........................................................................................................................................................8
EXAMPLE PROBLEM - PYROLYSIS OF BENZEN E..........................................................................................9
Additional data...........................................................................................................................................................10Exercise.......................................................................................................................................................................11
TUTORIAL .........................................................................................................................................................................12
Flowsheet....................................................................................................................................................................12
Components inputforms...........................................................................................................................................18
Setup input form.........................................................................................................................................................21
Properties input forms..............................................................................................................................................24
Streams input forms...................................................................................................................................................25
Blocks input forms.....................................................................................................................................................26
Reactions input forms ...............................................................................................................................................30
Control Panel.............................................................................................................................................................38
Results.........................................................................................................................................................................39

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Introduction
What is a Process Flowsheet
Process flowsheet can simply be defined as a blue print of a plant or part of it. It
identifies all feed streams, unit operations, streams that inter-connect the unit
operations and finally the...