• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.467-473
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• 2005

Liquid phase nitrous oxide ($N_2O$) contains air, carbon monoxide, water, carbon dioxide and NOx as main impurities. It is known to be very dangerous to obtain a very pure $N_2O$ product by using solidification at low temperature. In this study a new method to obtain a high purity of $N_2O$ product based on a continuous distillation process was introduced. For the modeling of the continuous distillation process to obtain a product having a purity over 99.999％ of $N_2O$ stream, Intalox wire gauze packing- No. SCH-80S gauze packing column was used. Peng-Robinson equation of state was used for the modeling of the continuous distillation process and refrigeration system. Computational results performed in this work showed a good agreement with Aspen Plus simulation results.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.83-94
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• 2019

LPG is increasingly being used as a clean energy source due to the continuous strengthening of environmental regulations. In addition, the demand of propane which is the basic compound for petrochemicals is increasing for propylene production. In the study, a divided wall column was used as de-propanizer and de-butanizer, which is expected to save large amount of energy among the four conventional distillation columns used for processing LPG. The simulation results showed a decrease of energy duty with ESI by 30.30% using two divided wall columns. Furthermore, simulation case studies were carried out with respect to design and operation condition. The main column tray and withdrawal tray were determined from the design case studies while the internal liquid flow and vapor flow were decided from the operating case studies. Also, ESI of 1.06% could be achieved from the case studies. According to the results, the simulation method used showed that it is greatly helpful to the design and evaluate a highly efficient divided wall column.

• Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.4-13
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• 2000

산업공정에서 배출되는 대기오염물질 및 유독성가스를 제거하기 위한 방법에는 여러 가지가 적용되고 있으나, 본 연구에서는 충전탑을 이용한 흡수원리로써 오염물질을 처리하는데 후력학적 특성에 대해서 연구하였다. 즉 환경보호와 화학공업에서 에너지 절약 측면에 충전탑의 사용이 증가되고 있으며, 충전물의 재료로는 플라스틱, 금속 및 세라믹 등으로 제작되며 종류로는 VSP-ring, Hiflow-ring, Hackette, Top-packing, Envi-pac 등이 있고 사용범위는 정류와 증류, 흡수 및 탈착과 액체와 액체의 추출공정 등에 효율적으로 사용되고 있다. 산업현장에서는 과거에 주로 사용되어온 Intalox-saddle, Rasching-ring, Pall-ring 등의 재래적 충전물은 압력손실과 물질전달, 에너지 절약 및 효율성이 좋은 격자형 충전물의 개발로 인하여 점점 사용이 감소되고 있는 추세이며, 최근에는 합성수지로 제조된 충전물 NSW-ring, Hiflow-ring, Envi-pac 등은 실험 결과에 의해서 재래적인 충전물 Raschig-ring과 Pall-ring보다 높은 상대적인 공간체적과 충전높이에 따른 낮은 압력손실과 함께 높은 부하 한계치에 대하여 효율적이고 가벼운 분리작용에 의한 수력학적 특성이 증명되어졌다. 격자형 충전물이 산업에 적용되기 위해서는 압력손실과 액체함량, 부하 한계치 가스상 또는 액상 물질전달의 특성을 규명하는 것이 중요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가수와 액체의 역류흐름에 의한 수력학적 특성과 물질전달 실험결과를 나타내었다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.1197-1201
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• 2006

In order to improve the operability in a fully thermally coupled distillation column the main column is separated into an upper and a lower column, and its design method is explained. With a distillation experiment using a two-inch column the operability of the proposed column is examined. Readily available methanol, ethanol and propanol are used as the feed, and the experimental result is compared with that of the HYSYS simulation. It is found from the experiment that the recovery ranges between 58.8% and 68% and the distillation efficiency is lower than that of the simulation. consumes less energy than an original column, it is not widely implemented in practice due to its operational difficulty. However, it is proved that the proposed distillation column can be operated without compressors and it can be practically utilized.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.341-352
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• 2017

Butyl acetate is produced from acetic acid and butanol via an esterification reaction in a reactive distillation column. Entrainer can be used for efficient removal of produced water from the reaction region, leading to significant improvement of the column performance. Batch reactive distillation has clear advantages over continuous one in terms of flexibility and adaptability in a small plant. We studied batch and semi-batch reactive distillation processes through process simulation and pilot-scale experiments. We investigated process configuration and type of entrainer for improvement of the column performance and suggested a novel cyclic operation strategy using the semi-batch reactive distillation column. The cyclic strategy was shown to give relatively high production rate and stable operation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.143-148
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• 2011

Corrosion at the top of a distillation column is a common problem in refineries and chemical plants. In particular, severe damage has been inflicted in refineries by corrosive materials such as hydrogen sulfide and chlorine. Therefore, the mechanism of the corrosion occurring at the top of a distillation column has been analyzed, and a model for forecasting the corrosion rate has been developed. Four major materials were selected for modeling: $H_2S$, $CO_2$, $H^+$ and $Cl^-$. These were selected by taking into consideration their effect on the corrosion rate. Studies on the transport phenomenon and reaction engineering for this model were carried out, and the reliability of the model was verified on the basis of the data measured at a real refinery.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.17-26
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• 1998

A study on the recovery of silver and nitric acid in the liquid waste resulted from the mediated electrochemical oxidation(MEO) process was conducted. The removal of silver in the concentrated nitric acid solutions was carried out by the electrodeposition. The removal efficiency more than 98% could be obtained in nitric acid concentrations less than 3 M with the current efficiency of nearly 100%. The experimonts on the evaporation for the recovery of nitric acid were performed as well. At the evaporation factor of 25., the degree of nitric acid recovery in 3.5 M nitric acid solution containing 0.5 to 1.0 mol% NaNO, was 80~90% resulting in 2.8~3.1 M nitric acid. The design factors and operating conditions of the distillation tower were analyzed by using MEH model derived by Maphtali-Sandholm with the throughput of 4 kg/hr for the enrichment of dilute nitric acid solution recovered by evaporation to reuse in the MEO process. The distillation column composed of eleven theoretical stages having the overall tray efficiency of 70% are needed to obtain 1.03 kg/h of 12M nitric acid and 2.97 kg/h of water with feed being introduced to the column at tray 6 from the bottom at the reflux ratio of 0.25, the reboiler with the heat load of 2.7 kW, and the condenser with the cooling load of 0.5 kW.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.191-199
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• 2021

A distillation column, which is a main facility of the chemical process, separates the desired product from a mixture by using the difference of boiling points. The distillation process requires the optimization and the prediction of operation because it consumes much energy. The target process of this study is difficult to operate efficiently because the composition of feed flow is not steady according to the supplier. To deal with this problem, we could develop a data-driven model to predict operating conditions. However, data preprocessing is essential to improve the predictive performance of the model because the raw data contains outlier and noise. In this study, after optimizing the predictive model based long-short term memory (LSTM) and Random forest (RF), we used a low-pass filter and one-class support vector machine for data preprocessing and compared predictive performance according to the method and range of the preprocessing. The performance of the predictive model and the effect of the preprocessing is compared by using R2 and RMSE. In the case of LSTM, R2 increased from 0.791 to 0.977 by 23.5%, and RMSE decreased from 0.132 to 0.029 by 78.0%. In the case of RF, R2 increased from 0.767 to 0.938 by 22.3%, and RMSE decreased from 0.140 to 0.050 by 64.3%.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.322-327
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• 2020

In this work, a study for the reduction of the electric power consumption has been estimated in main air compressors in the air separation unit through cryogenic distillation columns with PRO/II with PROVISION V10.2 at AVEVA company. Both required LNG mass flow rate and cold heat contained in 1 ton of LNG were also predicted using Peng-Robinson equation of state with Twu's new alpha function. Through this work, we concluded that 32.33-48.69% of electric power could be saved by using LNG cold heat.

• 기계와재료
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.26-35
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• 2012

가스액화플랜트는 질소, 산소, 헬륨 등 고순도의 가스를 효율적으로 저장 및 운송을 위해 가스를 액체로 변환하는 플랜트로, 대표적인 플랜트로는 질소, 산소, 아르곤 등의 가스를 생산하는 공기분리플랜트, 헬륨액화플랜트, 수소액화플랜트, 천연가스액화플랜트 등이 있다. 질소, 산소, 수소 등의 가스는 산업의 전반적인 분야에서 널리 사용되고 있으며, 국내의 경우 철강, 반도체, 디스플레이제조산업 등 가스 다소비 분야의 비약적인 발전에 따라 급격하게 수요가 증가하고 있는 상황이다. 대용량의 가스액화플랜트는 원료로부터 불순물을 제거하고, 팽창 또는 열교환 과정을 통해 가스를 액체로 변환하는 극저온기술로 주로 구성되며, 이와 같은 과정은 압축기, 열교환기, 증류탑, 팽창터빈, 콜드박스 등의 구성요소에 의해 구현된다. 따라서 가스액화플랜트에서 효율적인 극저온의 생성 및 유지는 플랜트의 경제성 제고를 위해 핵심적인 요소이다.