gPROMS training courses

Advanced : Advanced Reactor Design for CSTR (1-day)

Generally, a successful small-scale (lab or pilot) reactor cannot be directly scaled-up to a large commercial-scale reactor due to different hydrodynamic characteristics between the two scales. Modelling techniques combined with experiments are very effective upon the scale-up design of a commercial-scale reactor in terms of reducing time, effort, and cost. For this purpose, modelling techniques should be able to effectively capture 3D hydrodynamics happening inside a commercial-scale reactor together with non-flow phenomena.

SPSE’s hybrid gPROMS-CFD modelling technologies engage CFD to reactor modelling in a cost-efficient way. "Non-flow" phenomena (reaction, multicomponent mass transfer, etc.) from gPROMS and "flow" phenomena (mixing, turbulence, etc.) from CFD are considered simultaneously using hybrid gPROMS-CFD interfaces. These interfaces make it possible to solve complex reaction systems in a reasonable time but can capture the right level of detail of physics necessary for predicting reactor performance. As a result, engineers can do a successful scale-up from small-scale to comer-scale with reduced time, cost, and risk.

There are various products in SPSE’s hybrid gPROMS-CFD modelling interfaces. This course covers the “hybrid gPROMS-CFD Multizonal interface” developed for the detailed modelling of general-purpose reactors. This interface is suitable to capture both non-flow phenomena and flow phenomena in crystallizers, polymerization reactors, and gas-liquid reactors.

Audience

This course is aimed at chemical and process engineers who wish to develop a commercial-scale reactor using hybrid gPROMS/CFD modelling technology with the minimum experiments (to identify reaction kinetics) done in the lab-scale or pilot-scale reactor.

Content

This one-day course helps attendees to apply effectively advanced reactor design techniques to the design or scale-up of chemical CSTRs (continuously stirred tank reactors). It combines tutorials and hands-on sessions. By the end of this course, attendees will:

• Understand why considering non-ideal mixing is important upon the scale-up design of a commercial-scale reactor from a small-scale (lab or pilot) reactor
• Understand the concept and usage of hybrid gPROMS-CFD Multizonal simulation
• Know how to set up optimization problems to find the best operating condition of the reactor
• Know how to export hybrid Multizonal simulation results from gPROMS to CFD

Prerequisites

The course assumes that attendees have both knowledge of gPROMS to the level covered by the courses "Introduction: gPROMS Process" and "Advanced: Custom Modelling and Model Publishing," and usage experience of commercial CFD software, ANSYS Fluent.

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