VAPOR-LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM CALCULATION FOR SIMULATION OF BIOETHANOL CONCENTRATION FROM SUGARCANE

Liquid - Vapor Equilibrium/Distillation

Background The volatility of a compound is its ability to change into a vapor, or to evaporate at a particular temperature and pressure. The normal boiling point of a liquid usually allows comparison of its volatility to other materials, with lower boiling points indicating greater volatility, but this may be affected somewhat by the presence of other materials. Comparison of the concentration ...

Gibbs ensemble simulation of liquid-vapor equilibrium in quantum neon

A new modified Wilson equation for the calculation of vapor–liquid equilibrium of aqueous polymer solutions

A local composition model based on the lattice theory and two-fluid theory, considering the excess heat capacity, which is a modified Wilson equation, is developed for the excess Gibbs energy of aqueous polymer solutions. The model represents a synergistic combination of the excess entropy for mixing molecules of different sizes and the temperature dependent residual contribution, which combine...

Iterated linear programming strategies for nonsmooth simulation : a penalty based method for vapor-liquid equilibrium applications

We extend our iterated linear programming (LP) approach (Bullard and Biegler, 1991) to two-phase vapor-liquid equilibrium problems, which are characterized by regions of continuous operation with nonsmooth boundaries. Here we show that a simple reformulation allows us to handle the disappearance or reappearance of phases and thus allows us to solve a wider class of process problems. The propose...

Sugarcane for Bioethanol: Soil and Environmental Issues

Cultivation of sugarcane for bioethanol is increasing and the area under sugarcane is expanding. Much of the sugar for bioethanol comes from large plantations where it is grown with relatively high inputs. Sugarcane puts a high demands on the soil because of the use of heavy machinery and because large amounts of nutrients are removed with the harvest; biocides and inorganic fertilizers introdu...