CH4027D PROCESS MODELING AND SIMULATION

CO 1: Demonstrate the applications of process modeling and simulation in chemical engineering, its usefulness and limitations 

CO 2: Develop various chemical engineering process models based on fundamental laws

CO 3: Identify and develop skills for the solution of process models

CO 4: Model and solve various real life chemical engineering process using MATLAB and interpret simulation results

Introduction to process modelling and simulation, 

its usefulness and limitations, classification of models, mathematical complexity and scale, 

Fundamental laws on which models are build- conservation laws;

Chemical reaction engineering; thermodynamics; transport phenomena; equations of state; equilibrium,

Model building, 

Types of variables and degrees of freedom analysis. 

Development of Isothermal and Non-Isothermal models for various process units- stirred tank; 

Jacketed vessel; 

Surge tank; 

Heat exchangers, packed column; 

Reactors, mixing tank; 

Absorption column; 

Multi-component flash drum and distillation column.

• Solution techniques for steady state and unsteady sate Lumped parameter models 

which leads to 

• Algebraic equations and  

• Ordinary differential equations (initial value problems) - 

Explicit Euler method; 

Implicit Euler method; 

Runge-Kutta methods; 

• Solution techniques for steady state and unsteady sate Distributed parameter models 

which leads to 

• Ordinary differential equations 

(Initial value problems and 

Boundary value problems with 

Dirichlet, 

Neumann and 

Robin and mixed boundary conditions), and 

• Partial differential equations

(implicit and 

explicit method, 

Crank-Nicolson method).

Linearization of models, 

State space models, 

System stability, 

Introduction to MATLAB, 

Introduction to MATLAB-Simulink, 

Introduction to MATLAB-Simscape, 

Simulation of the process models for various units of plant and operations using MATLAB 1

Simulation of the process models for various units of plant and operations using MATLAB 2

Simulation of the process models for various units of plant and operations using MATLAB 3

Step-size strategies,

Convergence criteria,

Analysis and interpretation of simulation results.

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2. William L. Luyben, Process Modeling, Simulation and Control for Chemical Engineers, 2nd edition McGraw-Hill Publisbing Company, New York, 1999

3. B. Ogunnaike and W. Haemon Ray Process Dynamics, Modeling and Control, Oxford University Press Oxford, 2006

4. Hussain Chemical Process Simulation, Wiley & Sons, INC. New York, 1986

5. S.C. Chapra and R.P. Canale, Numerical Methods for Engineers, 7thedition McGraw-Hill Education New York, 2015

6. R.E.Franks, Modeling and Simulation in Chemical Engineering, John Wiley, 1972.

7. A.W. Westerberg, H.P. Hutchison, R.L. Motard, P. Winter, Process Flowsheeting, Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1979