Simulation of the dihydrate process for the production of phosphoric acid

In this work it is shown how the methods used in chemical engineering for the analysis and simulation of processes may be applied to the actual phosphoric acid plant. Attention has been focused on the dihydrate process for which the necessary fundamental experimental data and plant operation data are available. The results of the simulation have shown that a reasonable description of the process at hand is possible by the proposed method. However, because of the complexity of the process, of the limited basic experimental data reported in literature, and the limitations of mathematics, the model was somewhat idealized and gave a reliable representation of the influence of only a few of the variables that affect the performance of the plant.