Flow pattern identification for three‐phase distillation with a nonequilibrium modeling
Flow pattern identification for three‐phase distillation with a nonequilibrium modeling
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DOI:
10.1002/apj.559
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发表时间:
2011-05
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1.8
通讯作者:
L. Chen;J. Repke;Shuqing Wang
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作者:
L. Chen;J. Repke;Shuqing Wang
The fear of the uncertain vapor–liquid–liquid hydrodynamics has guided process engineers away from a three-phase involvement, of which the most uncertain is the flow pattern of the second liquid phase. Hence, a first-principle model-based estimation strategy was proposed to identify the flow pattern in the three-phase distillation. Representative experiments were performed in a laboratory-sclae packed column, and the results were sampled as reference data for the estimation. A dynamic nonequilibrium (NEQ) model was built up to consider the inter-phase mass transfer rigorously. The resulting estimation problem was then discretized using the multiple-shooting method, to formulate a large-scale NLP problem with a finite number of decision variables. The estimated results reveal that the flow pattern of the second liquid has a close relationship with the liquid and gas loads, and it could play a critical role for the variation of the separation efficiency inside a three-phase column. Copyright © 2011 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.