Process Modeling and Simulation Syllabus

Unit I

From Husain (1986) and Grewal and Grewal (2014).

• Introduction to math­e­mat­i­cal mod­el­ing
• Advantages and lim­i­ta­tions of mod­els
• Applications of process mod­els of
  • Stand-alone unit op­er­a­tions
  • Unit processes
• Classification of mod­els:
  • Linear vs. Non lin­ear
  • Lumped pa­ra­me­ter vs. Dis­trib­uted pa­ra­me­ter
  • Static vs. Dy­namic
  • Continuous vs. Dis­crete
• Numerical Methods:
  • Iterative con­ver­gence meth­ods
  • Numerical in­te­gra­tion of ODE
    • IVP
    • BVP

Unit II

From Rudd and Watson (1968).

• Concepts of de­gree of free­dom analy­sis:
  • System and its sub­sys­tem
  • System in­ter­ac­tions
• Degree of free­dom in a sys­tem e.g.
  • Heat ex­changer
  • Equilibrium still
• Reversal of in­for­ma­tion flow
• Design vari­able se­lec­tion al­go­rithm
• Information flow through sub­sys­tems
• Structural ef­fects of de­sign vari­able se­lec­tion
• Persistent Recycle

Unit III

Mostly from Luyben (1990).

• Simple ex­am­ples of process mod­els
• Models giv­ing rise to non­lin­ear al­ge­braic equa­tion (NAE) sys­tems
• Steady state mod­els of:
  • Flash ves­sels
  • Equilibrium staged processes
  • Distillation columns
  • Absorbers
  • Strippers
  • CSTRs
  • Heat ex­chang­ers
  • Misc
• Review of
  • Solution pro­ce­dures
  • Available nu­mer­i­cal soft­ware li­braries

Unit IV

Mostly from Luyben (1990).

• Steady state mod­els giv­ing rise to dif­fer­en­tial al­ge­braic equa­tion (DAE) sys­tems
• Rate based ap­proaches for staged processes
• Modeling of dif­fer­en­tial con­tac­tors
• Distributed pa­ra­me­ter mod­els of packed beds
• Packed bed re­ac­tors
• Modeling of re­ac­tive sep­a­ra­tion processes
• Review of so­lu­tion strate­gies for:
  • Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs)
  • Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
• Review of avail­able nu­mer­i­cal soft­ware li­braries
• Introduction to un­steady state mod­els and their ap­pli­ca­tions

Unit V

From Husain (1986) and Jana (2011).

• Simulations and their ap­proaches:
  • Modular
    • Sequential
    • Simultaneous
  • Equation solv­ing ap­proach
• Simulation soft­wares and their ap­pli­ca­tions
• Review of:
  • Solution tech­niques
  • Available nu­mer­i­cal soft­ware li­braries
  • Thermodynamic pro­ce­dures
  • Physical prop­erty data banks.

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