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Simulation Techniques for Process Energy Modeling
- Doing it Yourself with Excel
A Short Course Planned in Conjunction with MS&T’13
Sunday, October 27, 2013 • 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
InterContinental Hotel Montreal • Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The fundamental and practical methodology for making and using material and heat balances in industrial materials processing will be served by a series of presentations and examples of need and interest to the materials community.

I. Introduction to the Principles of Heat Balance Calculations.
  1. Unit Process Characteristics: Streams, mixers, separators, splitters, and reactors.
  2. Introduction of simulation-based teaching tools.
  3. Material balances: Material balance for combustion of natural gas. Simulation, using extension with Excel tools (Goal Seek and Multicalc).
  4. Heat balances: Source of data (FREED and on-line). Heat of reaction, sensible heats, and Trendline equation fitting.
  5. Solution of Equations: Using Solver, and SuperSolver tools in Excel.
  6. Heat Balance Example: Oxygen enrichment and combustion air preheat for natural gas combustion. Species Material Balance, R-Rx Concept, uncoupled and coupled systems. Simulation of an aluminum ingot heating furnace.
II. Use of Flowsheeting Simulation Principles to Develop Do-It-Yourself Excel Models.
  1. The Fluidized Bed Reduction of Iron Ore with Carbon, and with Reformed Natural Gas—Comparison of the Energy Requirements. Uncoupled System Balances; Using SuperSolver.
  2. The Production of Process Gas with Specified Oxygen and Carbon Potential. Part 1: Constrained Material Balance, Coupled Heat Balance, and SuperSolver. Part 2: Constrained Material Balance for Maximum Activity of Carbon; SuperSolver’s Optimization Feature.
III. Use of FlowBal Program to Develop Excel-Based Models.
  1. Introduction to the FlowBal program and its Uses. Simple Example on the Heating of Aluminum Ingot.
  2. Development of a Steady-State Process Model for Conversion of Waste Hematite to Magnetite.
  3. Development of an Unsteady-State Model for the Refining of Steel.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completion, the students should:

  1. Know the fundamental principles involved in making material and heat balances. They should be able to analyze a specific or conceptual process, and specify the procedures necessary to develop a quantitative flowsheet for it.
  2. Know how to find appropriate sources of thermodynamic data required for making such balances, and learning how to manipulate such databases to convert the data for use in material and heat balances. They will know how to evaluate the data to select the substances most likely to be present in a process stream, and the extent to which chemical reactions are most likely to proceed.
  3. Be familiar with the use and limitations of common Excel tools such as Goal Seek, Solver, and Regression, and appreciate the application of several specially-designed Excel tools for computationally-intense applications. They should be able to develop moderately complex flowsheet models using these tools correctly.
  4. Be able to simulate unsteady-state and batch processes by an iterative technique. They should realize the use of certain specially-designed Excel tools for making repetitive calculations that are necessary for iterative simulation.

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