Refinery Engineering: Integrated Process Modeling and Optimization

Ai-Fu Chang, Kiran Pashikanti and Y. A. Liu

This book presents a pioneering and comprehensive guide to predictive modeling of integrated refinery reaction and fractionation systems for process optimization and production planning using Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining.

It has received excellent reviews and strong endorsements by top industrial practitioner and academic expert in petroleum refining and process optimization:

“In this very competitive global industry, it is critical to minimize overall operating costs while achieving the maximum possible “upgrade” for each hydrocarbon molecule (called “molecule management”). This process requires complex computer modeling to help select feedstocks and product slates and troubleshoot and optimize the performance of individual refinery processes (e.g. distillation units, fluidized catalytic cracking units). And eventually, all of these individual parts have to be pulled together to feed a linear program (LP) model capable of optimizing the overall refinery. This complex modeling is the subject of this book by Ai-Fu Chang, Kiran Pashikanti and Y. A. Liu.

Based on my review, I believe this book provides a solid introduction to integrated refinery process modeling and optimization, using the tools and techniques currently employed in modern refineries. This book and associated coursework would be a highly desirable investment by any engineering student considering a career in petroleum refining.”

-Steven R. Cope, ExxonMobil manager of Baytown refinery

“This book by Professor Liu and his colleagues represents a major advance in enabling engineers who are not experts to develop and use state-of-the-art computer models for the simulation and optimization of integrated refinery reaction and fractionation processes.

One of the strengths of the book is that it doesn’t stop with theory, or even case study examples and hands-on workshops. It covers very practical problems: how to work with real data, how to construct the right level of detail for the problem and the data available, and how to tune the model to actual plant data. Individuals who want to contribute to the development of refinery process modeling or explore new directions will find the extensive review of existing work valuable. This book will also be valuable to industrial practitioners and to academic chemical engineers by exposing them to refinery process modeling and optimization and enabling them to solve realistic problems. The book takes this work from a technology used mostly by experts to a tool that refinery engineers can use in their everyday work.”

-Lawrence B. Evans, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, MIT; Founder, Aspen Technology, Inc.

Chemical Looping Systems for Fossil Energy Conversions

Liang-Shih Fan

This book presents the current carbonaceous fuel conversion technologies based on chemical looping concepts in the context of traditional or conventional technologies. The key features of the chemical looping processes, their ability to generate a sequestration-ready CO2 stream, are thoroughly discussed. Chapter 2 is devoted entirely to the performance of particles in chemical looping technology and covers the subjects of solid particle design, synthesis, properties, and reactive characteristics. The looping processes can be applied for combustion and/or gasification of carbon-based material such as coal, natural gas, petroleum coke, and biomass directly or indirectly for steam, syngas, hydrogen, chemicals, electricity, and liquid fuels production. Details of the energy conversion efficiency and the economics of these looping processes for combustion and gasification applications in contrast to those of the conventional processes are given in Chapters 3, 4, and 5.Finally, Chapter 6 presents additional chemical looping applications that are potentially beneficial, including those for H2 storage and onboard H2 production, CO2 capture in combustion flue gas, power generation using fuel cell, steam-methane reforming, tar sand digestion, and chemicals and liquid fuel production

Step-Growth Polymerization Process Modeling and Product Design

Kevin Seavey, Y. A. Liu

Understand quantitative model step-growth polymerization plans and how to predict properties of the product polymer with the essential information in Step-Growth Polymerization Process Modeling and Product Design. If you want to learn how to simulate step-growth polymerization processes using commercial software and seek an in-depth, quantitative understanding of how to develop, use, and deploy these simulations, consult this must-have guide. The book focuses on quantitative relationships between key process input variables (KPIVs) and key process output variables (KPOVs), and the integrated modeling of an entire polymer manufacturing train.

Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation

William L. Luyben

Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation introduces the current status and future implications of this vital technology from the dual perspectives of steady-state design and dynamics. Where traditional design texts have focused mainly on the steady-state economic aspects of distillation design, William Luyben also addresses such issues as dynamic performance in the face of disturbances.

Utilizing the commercial simulators Aspen Plus and Aspen Dynamics, the text guides future and practicing chemical engineers first in the development of optimal steady-state designs of distillation systems, and then in the development of effective control structures.

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing

Bruce A. Finlayson

As chemical engineering technology advances, so does the complexity of the problems that arise. The problems that chemical engineers and chemical engineering students face today can no longer be answered with programs written on a case-by-case basis. Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing teaches professionals and students the kinds of problems they will have to solve, the types of computer programs needed to solve these problems, and how to ensure that the problems have been solved correctly.

This indispensable text features programs such as Aspen PlusT and acquaints readers with the advantages of each.

Plantwide Dynamic Simulators in Chemical Processing and Control

William L. Luyben

This book by industry expert William Luyben illustrates the techniques and fundamentals to develop, design, and test plantwide regulatory control schemes with commercial dynamic simulation packages. Featuring large number of figures representing models of plantwides, flowsheets with controllers, responses of the systems, important parameter profiles, and also tables with stream data, the book also includes some very useful considerations concerning software, as well as a disk containing applications in HYSYS and Aspen Dynamics.

Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis and Evaluation

Warren D. Seider, J.D. Seader, Daniel R. Lewin

This text and accompanying CD present the steps for designing chemical products and processes, beginning with societal needs. Emphasis is placed on quantitative problem solving, including the use of heuristics, simulation, and optimization. The latest design strategies are described, most of which have been improved significantly with the advent of computers, mathematical programming methods, and artificial intelligence.

Using Process Simulators in Chemical Engineering (CD-ROM)

Daniel R. Lewin, Warren D. Seider, J. D. Seader, Eyal Dassau, Joshua Golbert, Daniel N. Goldberg, Matthew J. Fucci, and Robyn B. Nathanson

Introduces students to the use of the two most popular commercially available simulators--ASPEN PLUS and HYSYS.Plant. An excellent supplement for core chemical engineering courses, this multimedia CD includes tutorials complete with voice segments, animations, and video segments that assist students in completing the input forms, in using models of the process units (including videos of the process units in a petrochemical complex), and in using the physical-property estimation systems. The CD is organized both by content and by index, and driven by a Web-browser. The multimedia materials are designed to be used in parallel with ASPEN PLUS, version 11 or HYSYS.Plant, version 3.0, with one window open to the instructional materials and one to the simulator.

A Real Time Approach to Process Control

John Wiley & Sons, Limited

For decades, control theory has been taught using transfer functions, frequency-domain analysis, and Laplace transform mathematics. For linear systems - like those from the electromechanical areas from which these classical control techniques emerged - this approach is well suited. For chemical processes, often characterized by non-linearity and large doses of dead time, classical control techniques have known limitations.

In today's simulation-rich environment, the right combination of hardware and software is available to implement a "hands-on" approach to process control system design. Engineers and students are now able to experiment on virtual plants that capture the important non-idealities of the real world, and can test even the most outlandish of control structures without resorting to non-intuitive mathematics, or placing real plants at risk.

The purpose of this text is to provide a practical, hands-on introduction to process control by using only time-based representations of the process and the associated instrumentation and control. We believe this book is the first to treat the topic without relying at all upon Laplace transforms and the classical, frequency-domain techniques. For those wishing to advance their knowledge of process control beyond this first introductory exposure, we highly recommend understanding, even mastering, the classical techniques. However, as an introductory treatment of the topic, and for those chemical engineers not wishing to specialize in process control, but rather to extract something practical and applicable, we believe our approach hits the mark.

Conceptual Design of Distillation System

Michael F. Doherty, Michael F. Malone

This book is a pioneering effort by two of the world's top researchers. The authors have fashioned a text which develops models which are the basis for software tools for conceptual design. The book clearly addresses both analysis and design with sharp attention to supplying mathematical correctness and providing physical insight. A software supplement will accompany the text in a student version.

Principles and Case Studies of Simultaneous Design

William L. Luyben (Lehigh University, USA )

There are many comprehensive design books, but none of them provide a significant number of detailed economic design examples of typically complex industrial processes. Most of the current design books cover a wide variety of topics associated with process design. In addition to discussing flowsheet development and equipment design, these textbooks go into a lot of detail on engineering economics and other many peripheral subjects such as written and oral skills, ethics, “green” engineering and product design. This book presents general process design principles in a concise readable form that can be easily comprehended by students and engineers when developing effective flow sheet and control structures.

Ten detailed case studies presented illustrate an in-depth and quantitative way the application of these general principles. Detailed economic steady-state designs are developed that satisfy economic criterion such as minimize total annual cost of both capital and energy or return on incremental capital investment. Complete detailed flow sheets and Aspen Plus files are provided. Then conventional PI control structures are be developed and tested for their ability to maintain product quality during disturbances. Complete Aspen Dynamics files are be provided of the dynamic simulations.

Chemical Reactor Design and Control

William L. Luyben

Chemical Reactor Design and Control uses process simulators like Matlab, Aspen Plus, and Aspen Dynamics to study the design of chemical reactors and their dynamic control. There are numerous books that focus on steady-state reactor design. There are no books that consider practical control systems for real industrial reactors. This unique reference addresses the simultaneous design and control of chemical reactors. After a discussion of reactor basics, it:

• Covers three types of classical reactors: continuous stirred tank (CSTR), batch, and tubular plug flow
• Emphasizes temperature control and the critical impact of steady-state design on the dynamics and stability of reactors
• Covers chemical reactors and control problems in a plantwide environment
• Incorporates numerous tables and shows step-by-step calculations with equations
• Discusses how to use process simulators to address diverse issues and types of operations

This is a practical reference for chemical engineering professionals in the process industries, professionals who work with chemical reactors, and students in undergraduate and graduate reactor design, process control, and plant design courses.

A Real-Time Approach to Process Control, 2nd Edition

Professor William Y. Svrcek, Dr Donald P. Mahoney, Dr Brent R. Young

A Real- Time Approach to Process Control provides the reader with both a theoretical and practical introduction to this increasingly important approach. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this text introduces all of the applied fundamentals of process control from instrumentation to process dynamics, PID loops and tuning, to distillation, multi-loop and plant-wide control. In addition, readers come away with a working knowledge of the three most popular dynamic simulation packages. The text carefully balances theory and practice by offering readings and lecture materials along with hands-on workshops that provide a 'virtual' process on which to experiment and from which to learn modern, real time control strategy development.

As well as a general updating of the book specific changes include:

• A new section on boiler control in the chapter on common control loops
• A major rewrite of the chapters on distillation column control and multiple single-loop control schemes
• The addition of new figures throughout the text
• Workshop instructions will be altered to suit the latest versions of HYSYS, ASPEN and DYNSIM simulation software
• A new solutions manual for the workshop problems

Teach Yourself the Basics of Aspen Plus

Ralph Schefflan

Aspen Plus is one of the most popular process simulation software programs used industrially and academically. Though the software is available at many corporations and universities, there are no textbooks which are dedicated to teaching the step-by-step use of the software. This book is designed to fill that need. The structure of the book is unique in that it emulates a lecture /workshop classroom environment.

Each chapter starts with the equivalent of a classroom lecture followed by workshops which provide experience in the chapter's subject matter. The enclosed CD contains solutions, both in Aspen Plus and text formats, to examples imbedded in the text as well as to all the workshops. There are also notes at the end of each chapter designed to aid readers that have difficulty with the workshops.

Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering

H. Scott Fogler

Learn Chemical Reaction Engineering through Reasoning, Not Memorization

Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering is a complete yet concise, modern introduction to chemical reaction engineering for undergraduate students. While the classic Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Fourth Edition, is still available, H. Scott Fogler distilled that larger text into this volume of essential topics for undergraduate students.

Fogler’s unique way of presenting the material helps students gain a deep, intuitive understanding of the field’s essentials through reasoning, not memorization. He especially focuses on important new energy and safety issues, ranging from solar and biomass applications to the avoidance of runaway reactions.

Thoroughly classroom tested, this text reflects feedback from hundreds of students at the University of Michigan and other leading universities. It also provides new resources to help students discover how reactors behave in diverse situations–including many realistic, interactive simulations on DVD-ROM.