Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation (한국시뮬레이션학회논문지)
- Volume 4 Issue 1
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- Pages.121-130
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- 1995
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- 1225-5904(pISSN)
Simulation of Benzene-Toluene-Xylene Plant
BTX제조공정의 모사연구
Abstract
This paper deals with modeling and simulation of an industrial benzene-toluene-xylene plant. Because the fractionation unit of benzene-toluene-xylene plant has a narrow range of boiling point and doesn't have any sidecut and side reboiler, we employed boiling point estimation method in the modeling and simulation of the plant. Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation was used in the computation of thermodynamical properties. We solved resulting nonlinear equations by using Newton-Raphson method which is known to show fast convergence. Results of simulation showed good agreement with actual plant operation data.
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