UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN KIMIA

PROCESS SIMULATION LABORATORY
(CPE613)

NAME : SITI RUKAYYAH IZYANNI BINTI ALI HUSNAINI

STUDENT I.D : 2013517775
EXPERIMENT : LAB 3 AN ACYCLIC PROCESS
DATE PERFORMED : 22 MAC 2016
SEMESTER :5
PROGRAM : EH 2415
SUBMIT TO : DR. RAHIDA WATI

No. Title Allocated Marks (%) Marks

1 Procedure 10
2 Process Flow Diagram (PFD) 20
3 Workbook 30
4 Questions& Discussions 40
TOTAL MARKS 100

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TABLE OF CONTENT

No Description Page
1. Procedure 2
2. Process Flow Diagram 9
3. Workbook/stream summary 8
4. Question and Answer 10
5. Conclusion 11
6. Reference 11
PROCEDURE
1. The experiment was using iCON software.
2. The New Project button was selected to start a new iCON case.
3. When iCON was activated an initialization, the property package window as shown in
Figure A was prompted.

Figure 1

1) To activate the property package (Referring to Figure 1):

i. All Property Package was selected from the Chemical System Categories to
enable all possible property packages.
ii. The desired Thermodynamic Model was selected. For this problem, Advance
Peng-Robinson was chosen from the Thermodynamic Model drop-down list.
iii. Hit the Apply button to acknowledge the selection.

Adding Components:

1) The Components tab was clicked on to add the components. On the Pure Compound
Search tab, the n-Haptane, Hydrogen and Toluene was added to the system.
2) To add the necessary components:
i. Type the components name or formula (n-Haptane, Hydrogen and Toluene) in
the Compound box.
ii. From the given list of available components of similar name, double click the
required components.
 iii. This will automatically send the selected components to the Selected
Compounds box.
3) The Apply button was clicked to acknowledge the selection without leaving the
thermodynamics property package environment.
4) Leaved the thermodynamics property package environment by clicked the OK button.

Building the Simulation:

The VisioPFD method was chosen in order to develop the model by creating and
connecting by using the unit operations icons from the stencil palette.

STEP 1: Draw the S1. Double click on the stream to rename it to S1 and fill the
information in the Material Box with the temperature 65 which is equal to 18.33C.
The composition of n-hepatane is 1.0. Key in also the flow rate of the mixtures which
100Ibmole/hr which is equal to 45.36kmol/h. Click enters to go to the next step.

Figure 2
STEP 2: The heater was chosen to connect with the Stream 1

Figure 3

STEP 3: Draw the S2. Double click on the stream to rename it to S2 and fill the
information in the Material Box with the temperature 800 or 426.67 C in celcius.
Key in also the flow rate of the mixtures which 100Ibmole/hr or 45.36kmol/h. Click enters
to go to the next step.
 Figure 4

STEP 4: conversion reactor was selected to connect it with the Stream 2. In main data
key in the value of conversion to 0.15 then go to next step.

Figure 5

STEP 5 : No information was added at the S3.

 Figure 6
STEP 6: The cooler was selected, E2 to get connected to the S3. The temperature was
set at 65 or 18.33 C and the outlet stream was S4.

Figure 7

STEP 7: No information was added at the S4.

 Figure 8

STEP 8 :The separator was chosen to connect with the S4.

Figure 9

STEP 9: No information was added at the S5 and S6.

PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM

WORKBOOK/STEAM SUMMARY

Name S1 S2 S3 S4
Description
Upstream Op E-1.Out R-2.Out E-2.Out
Downstream Op E-1.In R-2.In E-2.In V-1.In
VapFrac 0.00 1.00 1.00 0.39156
T [C] 18.3 426.7 426.7 18.3
P [kPa] 101.325 101.325 101.325 101.325
MoleFlow/Composition Fraction kmol/h Fraction kmol/h Fraction kmol/h Fraction kmol/h
n-HEPTANE 1.0000 45.36 1.0000 45.36 0.53125 38.56 0.53125 38.56
HYDROGEN 0.0000 0.00 0.0000 0.00 0.3750 27.22 0.3750 27.22
TOLUENE 0.0000 0.00 0.0000 0.00 0.09375 6.80 0.09375 6.80
Total 1.00 45.36 1.00 45.36 1.00 72.58 1.00 72.58
Mass Flow [kg/h] 4545.06 4545.16 4545.16 4545.16
Volume Flow [m3/h] 6.607 2589.253 4159.475 685.992
Std Liq Volume Flow [m3/h] 6.592 6.592 8.021 8.021
Std Gas Volume Flow [Sm3/d] 2.579E+4 2.579E+4 4.1265E+4 4.1265E+4
Energy [W] -9.780E+4 1.627E+6 1.686E+6 -5.528E+4
H [kJ/kmol] -7761.7 129120.1 83640.0 -2742.0
S [kJ/kmol-K] 197.471 502.461 353.163 156.153
MW 100.20 100.20 62.63 62.63
Mass Density [kg/m3] 687.8770 1.7554 1.0927 6.6257
Cp [kJ/kmol-K] 214.773 315.983 199.143 137.667
Thermal Conductivity [W/m-K] 0.1270 0.0615 0.0929 0.1285
Viscosity [Pa-s] 4.1914E-4 1.3394E-5 1.4702E-5 1.4343E-4
Molar Volume [m3/kmol] 0.146 57.082 57.312 9.452
Z Factor 0.0062 0.9945 0.9983 0.3952
Surface Tension
Speed of Sound
Name S5 S6
Description
Upstream Op V-1.Vap V-1.Liq0
Downstream Op
VapFrac 1.00 0.00
T [C] 18.3 18.3
P [kPa] 101.325 101.325
MoleFlow/Composition Fraction kmol/h Fraction kmol/h
n-HEPTANE 0.0378 1.07 0.8488 37.48
HYDROGEN 0.95691 27.19 0.00052 0.02
TOLUENE 0.00529 0.15 0.15068 6.65
Total 1.00 28.42 1.00 44.16
Mass Flow [kg/h] 176.29 4368.87
Volume Flow [m3/h] 679.826 6.165
Std Liq Volume Flow [m3/h] 1.871 6.150
Std Gas Volume Flow [Sm3/d] 1.6157E+4 2.5107E+4
Energy [W] 6.946E+4 -1.247E+5
H [kJ/kmol] 8798.9 -10168.9
S [kJ/kmol-K] 155.023 156.879
MW 6.20 98.94
Mass Density [kg/m3] 0.2593 708.6145
Cp [kJ/kmol-K] 34.350 204.155
Thermal Conductivity [W/m-K] 0.1381 0.1281
Viscosity [Pa-s] 8.7405E-6 4.4047E-4
Molar Volume [m3/kmol] 23.923 0.140
Z Factor 1.0001 0.0059
Surface Tension
Speed of Sound
QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
1. What is the phase of n-haptane at the inlet and outlet of the heater?
The phase of n-haptane at the inlet and outlet of the heater were liquid and gas
respectively.

2. What is the mole fraction for each component after conversion of 15% of n-
haptane?
a) n-Haptane = 0.53125
b) hydrogen = 0.37500
c) toluene = 0.09375

3. What is the phase and temperature of separator feed stream?

The phase is liquid and temperature was 65 or 18.33C.

4. Determine the mole fraction for each component at the outlet of the separator.

Stream 5 Stream 6
n-haptane 0.03780 0.84880
hydrogen 0.95691 0.00052
toluene 0.00529 0.15068
CONCLUSION
In this experiment, toluene was produced from n-heptane by dehydrogenation. The
objective of this experiment is to install and converged a conversion reactor. Another aim for this
experiment is to simulate a process involving reaction and separation. The inlet stream was n-
heptane which undergoes varies of process to produce toluene. It has to go through a reboiler, a
conversion reactor, a condenser and a separator. A reboiler was set to increase a feed stream
temperature to 800 F. Temperature outlet at condenser was varies in order to achieved 96% of
conversion at the end of the process.

RECOMMENDATION
1. Make sure to set the correct reaction in iCON.
2. Make sure to connect the correct stream to the equipment.
3. Used the right fluid packing in order to get the desired product.
4. Make sure to used consistence unit in the calculation.
5. Make sure to insert the right value in each unit operation and on the feed stream.