Iván Darío Gil Chaves

This book offers a comprehensive coverage of process simulation and flowsheeting, useful for undergraduate students of Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering as theoretical and practical support in Process Design, Process Simulation, Process Engineering, Plant Design, and Process Control courses. The main concepts related to process simulation and application tools are presented and discussed in the framework of typical problems found in engineering design. The topics presented in the chapters are organized in an inductive way, starting from the more simplistic simulations up to some complex problems.

This book offers a comprehensive coverage of process simulation and flowsheeting, useful for undergraduate students of Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering as theoretical and practical support in Process Design, Process Simulation, Process Engineering, Plant Design, and Process Control courses. The main concepts related to process simulation and application tools are presented and discussed in the framework of typical problems found in engineering design. The topics presented in the chapters are organized in an inductive way, starting from the more simplistic simulations up to some complex problems.

La producci n de alcohol anhidro para su uso como carburante y en otras aplicaciones, es un tema de bastante inter s puesto que en distintas partes del mundo se viene investigando e implementando tecnolog as para reemplazar de forma parcial, y en algunos casos total, los combustibles originados a partir de recursos no-renovables. Este trabajo aborda la etapa de la deshidrataci n de etanol para llevarlo a la condici n de anhidro, a trav s de la tecnolog a de la destilaci n extractiva que tiene un potencial bastante alto en cuanto al consumo energ tico de la operaci n. Se hace el dise o conceptual y de detalle de una columna de destilaci n extractiva para procesar 50 l/h de etanol azeotr pico. El dise o conceptual hace uso herramientas de simulaci n y la columna se dise a a trav s de un modelo riguroso de No-equilibrio que permite cuantificar los efectos de transferencia de masa y calor en cada una de las fases. El dise o de detalle est enfocado a la adquisici n de un equipo eficiente, de operaci n flexible y de bajo costo.