Vijay A. Sethuraman, Ph. D.

2A01H Swearingen Engineering Center
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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HYSYS® Tutorial - April 11, 2005

This tutorial helps chemical engineering undergraduate students [ECHE 322 - Mass Transfer] design an adsorption column using HYSYS^® 3.2, a process modeling tool developed by AspenTech. The following process was considered:

"Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is absorbed into propylene carbonate in a packed column. The inlet gas stream is 20 mol% CO₂ and 80 mol% methane. The gas stream flows at a rate of 2 m³/s and the column operates at 60 °C and 60.1 atm. The inlet solvent flow is 2000 kmol/hr. Determine the concentration of CO₂ (mole %) in the exit gas stream, the column height (m) and the column diameter (m)".

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