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The Biorefinery Simulation and Techno-Economic Analysis Modules; Life Cycle Assessment; Chemical Process Simulation Under Uncertainty
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Biogas upgrading #178

Closed MaryTutuola closed 9 months ago

MaryTutuola commented 10 months ago

Hello, I want to know if Biosteam can be used to simulate a water-scrubbing system, and how to go about it if it can.

yoelcortes commented 10 months ago

Hello!

If you have an estimate of the stage efficiency, you can use BioSTEAM's Adsorption column to model it by thermodynamic equilibrium (https://biosteam.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API/units/distillation.html#biosteam.units.distillation.AdiabaticMultiStageVLEColumn). Then you'll need to add the cost of packing.

However, rigorous simulation of water-scrubbing systems for biogas are modeled by differential mass transfer. Such a model has not been contributed to biosteam yet, but BioSTEAM can certainly help you model it (https://biosteam.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/Inheriting_from_Unit.html).

Hope this helps, Thanks!