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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 11 months ago

MaryTutuola commented 1 year 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 1 year 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!