Methanol-Dimethyl Ether Process Simulation with Aspen - Lecture 03

Simulation of the gas phase methanol-dimethyl ether process, using Aspen Plus, Aspen EDR and Aspen Dynamics.
Contents index:
1 - Mass Balance
2 - VLE assessment
3 - methanol column
4 - ether column
5 - reactor
6 - energetic analysis
7 - heat exchangers
8 - working points/alternatives
9 - dynamics
Bibliography:
A - Process
W. Luyben, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2017;
Van der Lee & al., Proc. of the American Control Conference, 2002;
Fortin & al., Liege University PROJ0012-1, 2020;
B - Properties
Kurihara & al., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1995;
Ye & al., J. Chem. Thermodynamics, 2011;
Laursen & al., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2002;
Pozo & Streett, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1984;
Chang & al., J. of Chem. Eng. Data, 1982;
Vazquez & al., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1995;
Kubota & al., The Review of Phys. Chem. of Japan, 1979;
C - Separation
Ulyanova & al., Theor. Fundations of Chem. Eng., 2011;
Yang & al., Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2011;
Xu & al., Trans. I. Chem. Eng., 1996;
Kaeser & Pritchard, Energy, 2006;
Dornhagen & al., US 4802956, 1989;
Kosuge & al., J. of Chem. Eng. of Japan, 1990;
** NOTE **
From lecture 01, the fresh feed was updated, so the global mass balances are different. Also the streams were renamed. Nevertheless, the block specifications and the simulation concept are the same.

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