Modeling of a CO2-stripper Marie Solvik Supervisors : Sigurd Skogestad and Marius Støre Govatsmark
CO2-stripper Objectives Produce pure ethane product PC PC LC Objectives Produce pure ethane product Keep the CO2 content in the sales gas within the limit. LT, XLT FC F, z, hf 75 stages including reboiler and reflux tank Bottom product – purified ethane Distillate – Offgas (CO2, ethane and some methane) QR LC There exist a dynamic model of the system in D-spice B, xB
2-component flash tank made in Matlab SRK equation of state with binary interaction parameter found by Kornberg (2007) 2 components- ethane and CO2 Compared to simulation done in ProSim z1 P[barg] T[K] x1 y1 K 0.99 34.0 288.7 0.9927 0.9873 0.9946 0.90 283.8 0.9248 0.8752 0.9463 0.80 279.0 0.8428 0.7572 0.8984 0.60 271.5 0.6503 0.5497 0.8453 0.40 267.8 0.4202 0.3798 0.9039 0.20 268.0 0.1810 0.2190 1.2099 z1 P[barg] T[K] x1 y1 K 0.99 34.0 288.7 0.9924 0.9868 0.9943 0.90 283.7 0.9231 0.8727 0.9453 0.80 278.9 0.8419 0.7561 0.8980 0.60 271.6 0.6528 0.5520 0.8455 0.40 267.8 0.4225 0.3812 0.9023 0.20 268.0 0.1780 0.2166 1.2168
3-component flash tank made in Matlab Added an extra component, methane to the model Compared with actual process data from the top of the column and a flash tank model made in D-spice Real time composition of ethane(red) and CO2 (green) from Aspen process explorer.
D-spice versus Matlab yC2 yCO2 P[barg] T[◦C] Operating point 1 (3h) yC2 yCO2 P[barg] T[◦C] Operating point 1 (3h) Aspen 0.455 0.525 34.7 -3.3 Matlab 0.528 0.458 Malab 0.443 0.527 -6.0 D-spice -3.7 Operating point 2 (15h) 0.515 0.456 34.5 -2.0 0.556 0.420 34.6 -2.7 -3.1
Column model made in Matlab SRK function of state Builds on the flash tank model 75 stages Time-consuming
Conclusion The column model needs to be improved before finding optimal operating points Flash tank model made in D-spice showed accurate results when comparing with actual plant data and with Matlab model.