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Zhenxing Cai1, Hui Zhao1, Pingxin Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum Huadong, Qingdao 266580, China.
Abstract:
An activity coefficient-based model was proposed to predict pertinent saturated concentrations in organic solid-liquid equilibrium, and the binary parameters of xylene mixtures were experimentally obtained. Also, a novel monocular 3D reconstruction technique was developed to measure crystal size and applied to derive the kinetics of nucleation and growth of para-xylene crystals. Subsequently, a multi-dimensional population balance equation was used to predict the particle size distribution in the crystallizer and an algorithm was designed to simulate and optimize the economic benefit of the crystallization separation process. Consequently, it became possible to predict the optimal coolant flowrate and inlet temperature, as well as the feed flowrate for a crystallization process with given operating conditions and device parameters.
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