The Sargent dividing wall column can implement four products separation sequences in one column based on Fully Thermally Coupled Distillation Column. The initial design parameters are required for the design optimizat...The Sargent dividing wall column can implement four products separation sequences in one column based on Fully Thermally Coupled Distillation Column. The initial design parameters are required for the design optimization or dynamic control of the Sargent dividing wall column, and in order to make the rigorous simulation of the Sargent dividing wall column more conducive to convergence, a ten column model for complex Sargent column is established in this paper,and the shortcut design method of this model is proposed. The internal minimum vapor and liquid flow are obtained by the Underwood equations and the mass balance method and the V-min method. The separation for a 4-component shortcut mixture of pentane, hexane, heptane and octane was considered, while the initial values of design parameters and the ratio of vapor-liquid distribution of each column were calculated by using the shortcut design method of a ten column model. And by comparing the shortcut calculations with rigorous simulation results, the practicality and reliability of shortcut calculations were verified. The reason for energy saving was analyzed based on back-mixing. A virtual heat exchanger is proposed to make the Sargent dividing wall column more energy efficient.展开更多
This paper aims at solving the problems of low thermal collection rate,inconvenient maintenance,hindering indoor using during the application of passive solar technologies in rural houses in severe cold region.All the...This paper aims at solving the problems of low thermal collection rate,inconvenient maintenance,hindering indoor using during the application of passive solar technologies in rural houses in severe cold region.All these defects prevent the passive solar houses' further development. This paper chooses trombe wall,which has higher thermal efficiency of the passive solar house,as research object. The traditional vent is improved into a new type of ventilation device. This improvement overcomes the shortcoming,which traditional vent loses huge heat,and simplifies the construction of vent. Comparing with traditional trombe wall,the energy saving rate is 15. 69%.展开更多
Reactive dividing wall column(RDWC) is a highly integrated unit which combines reaction distillation(RD) with dividing wall column separation technology into one shell, and it realized the chemical reaction and the se...Reactive dividing wall column(RDWC) is a highly integrated unit which combines reaction distillation(RD) with dividing wall column separation technology into one shell, and it realized the chemical reaction and the separation of multiple product fractions simultaneously. In this paper, the reaction of esterification with acetic acid and ethanol to produce ethyl acetate was used as the research system, experiments and simulations of the RDWC were carried out. This system in the traditional process mostly used the homogeneous catalyst(e.g. sulfuric acid). However, in view of the corrosion of the equipment caused by the acidity of the catalyst, we used the heterogeneous catalysts – iron exchange resins – Amberlyst15 and proposed a novel catalyst loading method. Firstly,the reliability of the model of the simulation was verified by the experimental study on the change of liquid split ratio and reflux ratio. After that, the four-column model was established in Aspen Plus to analyze the effects of the amount of azeotropic agent, reflux ratio and acetic acid concentration. Finally, for a fair comparison, the economic analysis was conducted between traditional RD column and RDWC. The results showed that RDWC can save34.7% of total operating costs and 18.5% of TAC.展开更多
Reactive dividing-wall column(RDWC) technology plays a critical role in the energy saving and high efficiency of chemical process.In this article, the process of co-producing ethyl acetate(EA) and n-butyl acetate(BA) ...Reactive dividing-wall column(RDWC) technology plays a critical role in the energy saving and high efficiency of chemical process.In this article, the process of co-producing ethyl acetate(EA) and n-butyl acetate(BA) with RDWC was studied.BA was not only the product, but also acted as entrainer to remove the water generated by the two esterification reactions.Experiments and simulations of the co-production process were carried out.It was found that the experimental results were in good agreement with the simulation results.Two kinds of RDWC structures(RDWC-FC and RDWC-RS) were proposed, and the co-production process operating parameters of the two types of RDWC were optimized by Aspen Plus respectively.The optimal operating parameters of the RDWC-FC were determined as follows: 0.6 of the reflux ratio of aqueous phase(RR), 0.66 of the vapor split(R_V) and 0.51 of the liquid split(R_L).And the optimal operating parameters of the RDWC-RS were shown as follows: RR was 0.295 and R_V was 0.61.Furthermore, the energy saving analysis of the co-production process was based on the annual output of 10000 tons of EA, compared with the traditional reaction distillation(RD) to prepare EA and BA, the reboiler duty of the RDWC-FC column could save 20.4%, TAC saving 23.6%; RDWC-RS reboiler energy consumption could save 17.0%, TAC 22.2%.展开更多
The purpose of this research is to assess thermal performance and energy saving of a residential building in the hot semi-arid climate of Marrakech(Morocco).The studied house is built as usual in Marrakech without any...The purpose of this research is to assess thermal performance and energy saving of a residential building in the hot semi-arid climate of Marrakech(Morocco).The studied house is built as usual in Marrakech without any thermal insula-tion except for its external walls,facing East and West,which are double walls with a 5 cm air gap in between(“cavity wall”technique).The cavity wall effec-tive thermal conductivity was carefully calculated taking into account both radia-tion and convection heat transfers.Experimental results,obtained from winter and summer monitoring of the house,show well dampening of air temperature,thanks to its thermal inertia.However,this temperature remained outside the standard thermal comfort zone leading to large cooling/heating load.Simula-tion results indicate that the cavity wall contributes to an overall reduction of 13%and 5%of the house heating and cooling loads respectively.Moreover,the addition of XPS roof thermal insulation significantly enhances the heating and cooling energy savings to 26%and 40%respectively.展开更多
At present,a large number of historic buildings on campus are lack of energy-saving measures from the design time,especially the dormitories. And the reconstruction mostly focuses on functional reorganization or furni...At present,a large number of historic buildings on campus are lack of energy-saving measures from the design time,especially the dormitories. And the reconstruction mostly focuses on functional reorganization or furniture replacement. However,energy efficiency design has not been paid enough attention,which leads to the high building energy consumption and the harsh physical environment. Based on the analysis of climatic characteristics of Chongqing area,taking Dormitory Six on campus B of Chongqing University as an example,the reconstruction of rooms on the top floor and West end are focused to guarantee the equal benefits of the dormitory environment. Through the simulation analysis of the software, on the basis of energy saving reconstruction of common maintenance structure,this thesis discusses the energy saving reconstruction methods and strategies of the existing campus dormitories,which are more suitable for the existing campus dormitories in Chongqing area.展开更多
基金supported by the High-level Talents Program of Hebei Province (A 2017002032)
文摘The Sargent dividing wall column can implement four products separation sequences in one column based on Fully Thermally Coupled Distillation Column. The initial design parameters are required for the design optimization or dynamic control of the Sargent dividing wall column, and in order to make the rigorous simulation of the Sargent dividing wall column more conducive to convergence, a ten column model for complex Sargent column is established in this paper,and the shortcut design method of this model is proposed. The internal minimum vapor and liquid flow are obtained by the Underwood equations and the mass balance method and the V-min method. The separation for a 4-component shortcut mixture of pentane, hexane, heptane and octane was considered, while the initial values of design parameters and the ratio of vapor-liquid distribution of each column were calculated by using the shortcut design method of a ten column model. And by comparing the shortcut calculations with rigorous simulation results, the practicality and reliability of shortcut calculations were verified. The reason for energy saving was analyzed based on back-mixing. A virtual heat exchanger is proposed to make the Sargent dividing wall column more energy efficient.
基金Sponsored by the National Science-Technology Support Plan Projects (Grant No.2011BAJ08B06-2)
文摘This paper aims at solving the problems of low thermal collection rate,inconvenient maintenance,hindering indoor using during the application of passive solar technologies in rural houses in severe cold region.All these defects prevent the passive solar houses' further development. This paper chooses trombe wall,which has higher thermal efficiency of the passive solar house,as research object. The traditional vent is improved into a new type of ventilation device. This improvement overcomes the shortcoming,which traditional vent loses huge heat,and simplifies the construction of vent. Comparing with traditional trombe wall,the energy saving rate is 15. 69%.
基金Supported by the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2016M590191)the Key Basic Research Items in Application Basic Research Program of Hebei Province(16964502D)
文摘Reactive dividing wall column(RDWC) is a highly integrated unit which combines reaction distillation(RD) with dividing wall column separation technology into one shell, and it realized the chemical reaction and the separation of multiple product fractions simultaneously. In this paper, the reaction of esterification with acetic acid and ethanol to produce ethyl acetate was used as the research system, experiments and simulations of the RDWC were carried out. This system in the traditional process mostly used the homogeneous catalyst(e.g. sulfuric acid). However, in view of the corrosion of the equipment caused by the acidity of the catalyst, we used the heterogeneous catalysts – iron exchange resins – Amberlyst15 and proposed a novel catalyst loading method. Firstly,the reliability of the model of the simulation was verified by the experimental study on the change of liquid split ratio and reflux ratio. After that, the four-column model was established in Aspen Plus to analyze the effects of the amount of azeotropic agent, reflux ratio and acetic acid concentration. Finally, for a fair comparison, the economic analysis was conducted between traditional RD column and RDWC. The results showed that RDWC can save34.7% of total operating costs and 18.5% of TAC.
基金Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFB0602500)the Key Basic Research Items in Application Basic Research Program of Hebei Province,China(16964502D)
文摘Reactive dividing-wall column(RDWC) technology plays a critical role in the energy saving and high efficiency of chemical process.In this article, the process of co-producing ethyl acetate(EA) and n-butyl acetate(BA) with RDWC was studied.BA was not only the product, but also acted as entrainer to remove the water generated by the two esterification reactions.Experiments and simulations of the co-production process were carried out.It was found that the experimental results were in good agreement with the simulation results.Two kinds of RDWC structures(RDWC-FC and RDWC-RS) were proposed, and the co-production process operating parameters of the two types of RDWC were optimized by Aspen Plus respectively.The optimal operating parameters of the RDWC-FC were determined as follows: 0.6 of the reflux ratio of aqueous phase(RR), 0.66 of the vapor split(R_V) and 0.51 of the liquid split(R_L).And the optimal operating parameters of the RDWC-RS were shown as follows: RR was 0.295 and R_V was 0.61.Furthermore, the energy saving analysis of the co-production process was based on the annual output of 10000 tons of EA, compared with the traditional reaction distillation(RD) to prepare EA and BA, the reboiler duty of the RDWC-FC column could save 20.4%, TAC saving 23.6%; RDWC-RS reboiler energy consumption could save 17.0%, TAC 22.2%.
基金supported by the PARS grant from the Hassan Ⅱ Academy of Sciences and Techniques,Morocco。
文摘The purpose of this research is to assess thermal performance and energy saving of a residential building in the hot semi-arid climate of Marrakech(Morocco).The studied house is built as usual in Marrakech without any thermal insula-tion except for its external walls,facing East and West,which are double walls with a 5 cm air gap in between(“cavity wall”technique).The cavity wall effec-tive thermal conductivity was carefully calculated taking into account both radia-tion and convection heat transfers.Experimental results,obtained from winter and summer monitoring of the house,show well dampening of air temperature,thanks to its thermal inertia.However,this temperature remained outside the standard thermal comfort zone leading to large cooling/heating load.Simula-tion results indicate that the cavity wall contributes to an overall reduction of 13%and 5%of the house heating and cooling loads respectively.Moreover,the addition of XPS roof thermal insulation significantly enhances the heating and cooling energy savings to 26%and 40%respectively.
文摘At present,a large number of historic buildings on campus are lack of energy-saving measures from the design time,especially the dormitories. And the reconstruction mostly focuses on functional reorganization or furniture replacement. However,energy efficiency design has not been paid enough attention,which leads to the high building energy consumption and the harsh physical environment. Based on the analysis of climatic characteristics of Chongqing area,taking Dormitory Six on campus B of Chongqing University as an example,the reconstruction of rooms on the top floor and West end are focused to guarantee the equal benefits of the dormitory environment. Through the simulation analysis of the software, on the basis of energy saving reconstruction of common maintenance structure,this thesis discusses the energy saving reconstruction methods and strategies of the existing campus dormitories,which are more suitable for the existing campus dormitories in Chongqing area.