In Sweden the industries releases about 50 TWh / year of low temperature waste heat[1], often in the form of humid air flows. Today, conventional flue gas condensation is only exploiting a minor part of the energy from these flows. It is a well-established and profit­able way of improving the efficiency of district heating plants and other boilers for wet fuels. How­ever, the condensation is only applicable when the dew point of the flue gas is above the temperature demand for the heating net. The paper industry gives a good illustration of the limitations for conventional condensation: several MW of wet air streams with dew points of 60-65 ̊ C are released but cannot be recovered since the tempe­ra­ture demand is 70-80 ̊ C for the heating net. Different technologies for more advanced waste heat recovery are developing and this report is evaluating a demonstration plant for “hygro­scopic condenser”, which uses a hygroscopic solution that allows condensation above the dew point. The hygro­scopic solution is potassium formate, which enables condensation to start about 20 ̊ C above the dew point and is sufficiently non-toxic and non-corrosive. The objective of this work is to evaluate both the equipment and the process during some initial tests at the paper mill at Holmen, Braviken. The aim is also to suggest improvements of the process, the components and the additional equipment for future continuous operation.  The equipment consists of two main parts:  a hygroscopic absorption stage and a regene­ration stage. The major part of the humid air is led into an absorption column where vapor is absorbed by the formate solution and rises its temperature. This recovered waste heat is transferred to the heating net by a plate heat exchanger. The regeneration unit is used to maintain the hygroscopic concentrations by evaporation of vapor from the formate solution (amount of absorbed vapor = amount of evaporated vapor). The regene­rator is driven by process steam from the existing 3.5 bar net. The evaporated vapor is led to a conventional condenser where the regeneration energy can be recovered and the condensate is bled off.  The recovered heat from the process (hygroscopic absorber + regeneration condenser) is used in the heating net at Holmen, Braviken (VVG-net).    The initial tests have been made during 15 hours of initial operation, when the equipment has delivered about 3 MWh in total. The tests show a good temperature performance since the dew point of the humid air has been lowered from about 60oC to 47oC. The reco­vered heat was used for heating from 65oC to about 80oC. During the initial tests the capacity has not yet reached the design values. As an example the delivered heat was measured to 280 kW where­of 46kW from absorbed vapor, 129 kW from the sensible heat in the incoming humid air and 105 kW from the regeneration. The bottle-neck parts of the equipment have been localized and will be overseen during the summer of 2011 and the process is planned to be in use during the autumn with an output capacity of 500kW. The coefficient of performance (COP) is calculated to just below 2 during normal operation but was about 2.7 in the test runs due to the high portion of sensible heat. [1]Förekomst av industriellt spillvärme vid låga temperaturer,  Ingrid Nyström, Per-Åke Franck, Industriell Energianalys AB, 2002-04-15

Sustainable tilapia production at Blue Ridge Aquaculture (BRA) is constrained by availability of high quality replacement water. I developed a pilot-scale wastewater treatment system to treat and reuse effluent presently discharged. An initial study was conducted to determine the response of the BRA waste stream to ozone application. Dosages of 6.9, 4.8 and 2.4 g O3 were applied for 30 minutes to 35 L of settled effluent. Optimum ozone dosage and reaction time, ozone transfer efficiency, ozone yield coefficient, degree of pollutant removal, and other ozone and water quality parameters were determined. Most results suggested that the maximum process feasibility limit for ozone contact time was approximately 9 minutes at an applied ozone concentration of 23g/m3 (6.9 g O3 dose). Formation of foam increased solids and COD removal up to three times. Poor removal or accumulation of DOC and TAN was observed, indicating the need for biological treatment following ozonation. Next, I evaluated a pilot station treatment train including sedimentation, microscreen filtration, fluidized bed denitrification, ozonation, aerobic biological oxidation in a trickling filter, and jar-test chemical flocculation. Significant improvements were found regarding solids, COD, cBOD5, NO3--N, TKN, and turbidity. Removal of foam after ozonation improved ozonation efficacy and pollutant removal. A nitrogen budget for the BRA facility was derived, indicating that 35% of the nitrogen applied in feed was assimilated in fish. I evaluated the possible impact of residual inorganic nitrogen forms from treated effluent upon fish in the recirculating systems. I found that less than 1% of the TAN produced would return the recovered stream, and that the existing biological contactors can remove it. Evaluation of TAN fate indicated that 84% was oxidized in biofilters, 14% was oxidized by passive nitrification, and 1% was removed by water exchange. For NO3-N, I determined that 56% was removed by passive denitrification and 44% by daily water exchange. The pilot station design was effective for removing organics and nutrients, and can serve as the basis for scale-up for treating and reusing the entire BRA effluent stream. / Ph. D.

Biomass waste has been recognised as a promising, renewable source for future transport fuels. With 1.7 million hectares of pine plantation forests and 12 million cubic meters of annual residue produced by sawmills and the pulp and paper industries, New Zealand presents a prime location where utilisation of these resources can take the next step towards creating a more environmentally friendly future. In this research, the process of fast pyrolysis was investigated using a laboratoryscale, nitrogen-blown fluidised bed pyrolyser at CRL Energy. This equipment can process 1–1.5 kg/h of woody biomass in a temperature range of 450–550°C. The purpose of this rig was to determine the impact of various processing parameters on bio-oil yields. Next, the pyrolysis liquids (bio-oil and tar) were processed downstream into bio-bitumen. Pyrolysis experiments were carried out on Pinus Radiata and Eucalyptus Nitens residue sawdust from sawmills and bark feedstock. The properties of the collected products, including pyrolysis liquids (bio-oil and tar), gas and solid bio-chars, were measured under different operational conditions. Further analysis was also performed to determine pH, volatile content, chemical composition and calorific values of the products. The ultimate goal for this project was to develop a feasible, advanced fast-pyrolysis system for a bio-bitumen production plant using various biomass feedstocks. Additionally, a design for a bio-bitumen production plant was developed, and techno-economic analysis was conducted on a number of plant production yield cases and bio-bitumen manufacture ratios.

Increasing CO2 emissions from the energy and industrial sectors are a worldwide concern due to the effects that these emissions have on the global climate. Carbon capture and storage has been identified as one of a portfolio of technologies that would mitigate the effects of global warming in the upcoming decades. Calcium looping is a second generation carbon capture technology aimed at reducing the CO2 emissions from the power and industrial sectors. This thesis assesses the improvement of the calcium looping cycle for CO2 capture through enhanced sorbent production and testing at lab-, bench- and pilot-scale, and a new operational mode with high oxygen concentrations in the calciner through experimental campaigns in Cranfield’s 25 kWth pilot unit. Novel biomass-templated sorbents were produced using the pelletisation technique and tested at different conditions in a thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) and a bench-scale plant comprising a bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) reactor. Moreover, the effects of sorbent poisoning by SO2, and the influence of steam were studied in order to explore the effects of real flue gas on this type of material. In addition to the chemical performance, the mechanical strength, i.e. resistance to fragmentation of these materials was tested. In additon, two different kinds of enhanced materials were produced and tested at pilot-scale. Namely, calcium aluminate pellets and HBr-doped limestone were used in experimental campaigns in Cranfield’s 25 kWth pilot plant comprising a CFB carbonator and a BFB calciner. The suitability of these materials for Ca looping was assessed and operation challenges were identified in order to provide a basis for synthetic sorbent testing at a larger scale. Lastly, a new operational mode was tested, which is aimed at reducing the heat provided to the calciner through high oxygen concentration combustion of a hydrocarbon (in this case natural gas) in the calciner. This approach reduces or even eliminates the recirculated CO2 stream in the calciner. In consequence, this results in a lower capital (reduced size of the calciner) and operational cost (less oxygen and less fuel use). Several pilot plant campaigns were performed using limestone as solid sorbent in order to prove this concept, which was successfully verified for concentrations of up to 100% vol oxygen in the inlet to the calciner.

A pirólise rápida é um processo para conversão térmica de uma biomassa sólida em altos rendimentos de um produto líquido chamado de bio-óleo. Uma das alternativas para geração de um bio-óleo com menor teor de oxigênio é uso de catalisadores nos reatores de pirólise, ao invés de um inerte, num processo chamado de pirólise catalítica. O objetivo deste trabalho foi testar catalisadores comerciais, um ácido e outro básico, em uma unidade piloto de leito fluidizado circulante. O catalisador ácido utilizado foi o Ecat, proveniente de uma unidade industrial de craqueamento catalítico fluido (FCC), e como catalisador básico foi utilizado uma hidrotalcita. Os resultados foram comparados com testes utilizando um material inerte, no caso uma sílica. Uma unidade piloto de FCC do CENPES foi adaptada para realizar os testes de pirólise catalítica. Após fase de modificação e testes de condicionamento, foi comprovada a viabilidade na utilização da unidade piloto adaptada. Contudo, devido a limitações operacionais, maiores tempos de residência tiveram que ser aplicados no reator, configurando o processo como pirólise intermediária. Foram então realizados testes com os três materiais nas temperaturas de 450C e 550C. Os resultados mostraram que o aumento do tempo de residência dos vapores de pirólise teve um impacto significativo nos rendimentos dos produtos quando comparada com o perfil encontrado na literatura para pirólise rápida, pois devido ao incremento das reações secundárias, produziu maiores rendimentos de coque e água, e menores rendimentos de bio-óleo. O Ecat e a hidrotalcita se apresentaram mais efetivos em termos de desoxigenação. O primeiro apresentou maiores taxas de desoxigenação via desidratação e a hidrotalcita apresentou maior capacidade para descarboxilação. Contudo, o uso de Ecat e hidrotalcita não se mostrou adequado para uso em reatores de pirólise intermediária, pois acentuou ainda mais as reações secundárias, gerando um produto com alto teor de água e baixo teor de compostos orgânicos no bio-óleo, além de produzirem mais coque. À temperatura de 450C estes efeitos foram mais pronunciados. Em termos de caracterização química, a condição de pirólise intermediária apontou para a produção de bio-óleos com perfil fenólico, sendo a sílica o que proporcionou os melhores rendimentos, principalmente a temperatura de 550C, sendo superiores aos encontrados na literatura. Analisando as composições dos bio-óleos sob a ótica da produção de biocombustíveis, nenhum dos materiais testados apresentou rendimentos consideráveis em hidrocarbonetos. De maneira geral, a sílica foi o que proporcionou os melhores resultados em termos de rendimento e qualidade do bio-óleo. Sua menor área superficial e sua característica de inerte se mostraram mais adequados para o processo de pirólise intermediária, onde a contribuição das reações secundárias em fase gasosa é elevada em função do tempo de residência no reator / The fast pyrolysis is a thermal process that converts, at high yield, solid biomass into a liquid product called bio-oil. One alternative for the generation of bio oil with lower oxygen content is the use of catalysts in the pyrolysis reactor, rather than an inert, a process called catalytic pyrolysis. The objective of this study was to test two such commercial catalysts, one acid and the other basic, in a pilot plant with a circulating fluidized bed reactor. The acid catalyst used was the Ecat, which is a catalyst from an industrial fluid catalytic cracking plant (FCC), and the base catalyst used was hydrotalcite. The results were compared with tests using an inert material, a type of silica. A FCC pilot plant at CENPES was chosen and adapted to perform the catalytic pyrolysis tests. After the modification phase, the feasibility of using the adapted pilot unit was verified. However, due to operational limitations, higher reactor residence times had to be adopted in the reactor, leading to the re-classification of the pyrolysis process as intermediate in terms of this parameter. Tests were then conducted with the three materials at temperatures of 450C and 550C. The results showed that increasing the residence time of pyrolysis vapors had a significant impact on products yields, when compared with the profile found in the literature for fast pyrolysis, since the increase in secondary reactions produced higher yields of coke and water, and lower yields of bio-oil. The Ecat and hydrotalcite showed to be more effective in terms of deoxygenation. The Ecat presented higher deoxygenation rates by dehydration and the hydrotalcite showed greater capacity for decarboxylation. However, the use of Ecat and hydrotalcite was not suitable for intermediate pyrolysis reactors, since both materials increase secondary reactions, generating a product with high water content and low content of organic compounds in bio-oil and produce more coke. These results were more pronounced at the lower temperature tested (450C). In terms of chemical characterization, the intermediate pyrolysis conditions produced bio-oils with phenolic profile. Among the tested materials, silica presented better phenolic yields, especially at higher temperatures (550C). These results are also superior to those found in current literature. Analyzing the composition of bio-oils from the standpoint of biofuel production, none of the materials tested showed considerable hydrocarbons yields. In general, silica had the best results in terms of yield and quality of bio-oil. Being an inert material, silica was more suitable for intermediate pyrolysis process, where the contribution of secondary reactions in the gas phase is high due to the residence time in reactor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoAMF_DISSERT.pdf: 1096063 bytes, checksum: 5fc2d5a69c06dbd0861b8cfebf12e262 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-10 / Petr?leo Brasileiro SA - PETROBRAS / This document proposes to describe a pilot plant for oil wells equipped with plunger lift. In addition to a small size (21,5 meters) and be on the surface, the plant s well has part of its structure in transparent acrylic, allowing easy visualization of phenomena inherent to the method. The rock formation where the well draws its pilot plant fluids (water and air) is simulated by a machine room where they are located the compressor and water pump for the production of air and water. To keep the flow of air and water with known and controlled values the lines that connect the machine room to the wellhole are equipped with flow sensors and valves. It s developed a supervisory system that allows the user a real-time monitoring of pressures and flow rates involved. From the supervisor is still allowed the user can choose how they will be controlled cycles of the process, whether by time, pressure or manually, and set the values of air flow to the water used in cycles. These values can be defined from a set point or from the percentage of valve opening. Results from tests performed on the plant using the most common forms of control by time and pressure in the coating are showed. Finally, they are confronted with results generated by a simulator configured with the the pilot plant s feature / Este trabalho se prop?e a descrever uma Planta Piloto para po?os de petr?leo equipados com eleva??o artificial do tipo plunger lift. Al?m de um tamanho reduzido (21,5 metros) e estar sobre a superf?cie, o po?o da planta possui parte de sua estrutura em acr?lico transparente, permitindo a f?cil visualiza??o de fen?menos inerentes ao m?todo. A forma??o rochosa donde o po?o da Planta Piloto extrai seus fluidos (?gua e ar) ? simulada por uma casa de m?quinas onde est?o localizados o compressor e a bomba centr?fuga respons?veis pela produ??o de ar e ?gua. Para manter as vaz?es desses fluidos com valores conhecidos e controlados as linhas que conectam a casa de m?quina ao fundo do po?o s?o equipadas com sensores de vaz?o e v?lvulas. ? desenvolvido um sistema supervis?rio que permite ao usu?rio uma monitora??o em tempo real das press?es e vaz?es envolvidas no processo. A partir do supervis?rio ? poss?vel ainda o usu?rio escolher a forma como ser?o controlados os ciclos do processo, se por tempo, por press?o ou manualmente, e definir os valores de vaz?o de ar a ?gua utilizados durantes os ciclos. Esses valores podem ser definidos a partir de um set point ou a partir da porcentagem de abertura das v?lvulas. S?o apresentados resultados de testes realizados na planta utilizando as formas de controle mais usuais: por tempo e por press?o no revestimento. Por fim, estes ser?o confrontados com resultdos gerados por um simulador configurados com as caracter?sticas da Planta Piloto

The standardization of operational procedures in chemical plants through the use of automation have became a mandatory practice for the current companies that tries or have tried a place in the commodities competitive stock. Real gains in productivity and recovery are closely related to controller s performance used in chemical process of this companies. There are a several controllers strategies in which the predictive control is a powerful tool that shows attractive results. The use of predictive control is achieved by the implementation of the control strategy in a pilot plant of a MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) non-linear process. The nonlinear process is a experimental system of a neutralization reactor with three input flows and one output flow, and the manipulated variable are the level of reactor and the pH of mixture. The input flows are one of acid, one of base and one of buffer solution and this are the controlled variables. The information used to controller project was obtained in a open loop procedure. In this procedure, it was made disturbances in input variable and watched the output variable behavior. The MPC ( Model Predictive Control) performance was tested in a simulation and after in the pilot plant. The results achieved in simulation and practice implementation shows the excellent performance of controller to the process. / A padronização dos procedimentos operacionais nas plantas químicas através do emprego de automação vem tornando-se uma prática obrigatória para as atuais empresas que ocupam ou tentam ocupar um lugar de destaque no competitivo mercado de commodities. Ganhos reais de produtividade e recuperação estão intimamente associados ao desempenho dos controladores utilizados nos processos químicos destas empresas. Dentre as diversas estratégias de controle existentes, o controle preditivo corresponde a uma poderosa ferramenta que apresenta resultados bastante atrativos. Este trabalho investiga a aplicação prática de controle preditivo em uma planta piloto representativa de processos não-lineares MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output). O processo não-linear é um sistema experimental composto por um reator de neutralização com três correntes de entrada e uma de saída, sendo que as variáveis manipuladas correspondem ao nível do tanque e ao pH da mistura. As correntes de entrada são uma de ácido, uma de base e uma de solução tampão e correspondem às variáveis controladas. Informações necessárias para o projeto do controlador foram coletadas através do procedimento de operação em malha aberta, no qual provocou-se pertubações nas variáveis de entrada e observou-se o comportamento das variáveis de saída. O desempenho do controlador MPC (Model Predictive Control) proposto foi inicialmente avaliado em simulação e posteriormente na planta piloto. Os resultados obtidos na simulação e na implementação prática comprovam o excelente desempenho do controlador para o processo em estudo. / Mestre em Engenharia Química

A pirólise rápida é um processo para conversão térmica de uma biomassa sólida em altos rendimentos de um produto líquido chamado de bio-óleo. Uma das alternativas para geração de um bio-óleo com menor teor de oxigênio é uso de catalisadores nos reatores de pirólise, ao invés de um inerte, num processo chamado de pirólise catalítica. O objetivo deste trabalho foi testar catalisadores comerciais, um ácido e outro básico, em uma unidade piloto de leito fluidizado circulante. O catalisador ácido utilizado foi o Ecat, proveniente de uma unidade industrial de craqueamento catalítico fluido (FCC), e como catalisador básico foi utilizado uma hidrotalcita. Os resultados foram comparados com testes utilizando um material inerte, no caso uma sílica. Uma unidade piloto de FCC do CENPES foi adaptada para realizar os testes de pirólise catalítica. Após fase de modificação e testes de condicionamento, foi comprovada a viabilidade na utilização da unidade piloto adaptada. Contudo, devido a limitações operacionais, maiores tempos de residência tiveram que ser aplicados no reator, configurando o processo como pirólise intermediária. Foram então realizados testes com os três materiais nas temperaturas de 450C e 550C. Os resultados mostraram que o aumento do tempo de residência dos vapores de pirólise teve um impacto significativo nos rendimentos dos produtos quando comparada com o perfil encontrado na literatura para pirólise rápida, pois devido ao incremento das reações secundárias, produziu maiores rendimentos de coque e água, e menores rendimentos de bio-óleo. O Ecat e a hidrotalcita se apresentaram mais efetivos em termos de desoxigenação. O primeiro apresentou maiores taxas de desoxigenação via desidratação e a hidrotalcita apresentou maior capacidade para descarboxilação. Contudo, o uso de Ecat e hidrotalcita não se mostrou adequado para uso em reatores de pirólise intermediária, pois acentuou ainda mais as reações secundárias, gerando um produto com alto teor de água e baixo teor de compostos orgânicos no bio-óleo, além de produzirem mais coque. À temperatura de 450C estes efeitos foram mais pronunciados. Em termos de caracterização química, a condição de pirólise intermediária apontou para a produção de bio-óleos com perfil fenólico, sendo a sílica o que proporcionou os melhores rendimentos, principalmente a temperatura de 550C, sendo superiores aos encontrados na literatura. Analisando as composições dos bio-óleos sob a ótica da produção de biocombustíveis, nenhum dos materiais testados apresentou rendimentos consideráveis em hidrocarbonetos. De maneira geral, a sílica foi o que proporcionou os melhores resultados em termos de rendimento e qualidade do bio-óleo. Sua menor área superficial e sua característica de inerte se mostraram mais adequados para o processo de pirólise intermediária, onde a contribuição das reações secundárias em fase gasosa é elevada em função do tempo de residência no reator / The fast pyrolysis is a thermal process that converts, at high yield, solid biomass into a liquid product called bio-oil. One alternative for the generation of bio oil with lower oxygen content is the use of catalysts in the pyrolysis reactor, rather than an inert, a process called catalytic pyrolysis. The objective of this study was to test two such commercial catalysts, one acid and the other basic, in a pilot plant with a circulating fluidized bed reactor. The acid catalyst used was the Ecat, which is a catalyst from an industrial fluid catalytic cracking plant (FCC), and the base catalyst used was hydrotalcite. The results were compared with tests using an inert material, a type of silica. A FCC pilot plant at CENPES was chosen and adapted to perform the catalytic pyrolysis tests. After the modification phase, the feasibility of using the adapted pilot unit was verified. However, due to operational limitations, higher reactor residence times had to be adopted in the reactor, leading to the re-classification of the pyrolysis process as intermediate in terms of this parameter. Tests were then conducted with the three materials at temperatures of 450C and 550C. The results showed that increasing the residence time of pyrolysis vapors had a significant impact on products yields, when compared with the profile found in the literature for fast pyrolysis, since the increase in secondary reactions produced higher yields of coke and water, and lower yields of bio-oil. The Ecat and hydrotalcite showed to be more effective in terms of deoxygenation. The Ecat presented higher deoxygenation rates by dehydration and the hydrotalcite showed greater capacity for decarboxylation. However, the use of Ecat and hydrotalcite was not suitable for intermediate pyrolysis reactors, since both materials increase secondary reactions, generating a product with high water content and low content of organic compounds in bio-oil and produce more coke. These results were more pronounced at the lower temperature tested (450C). In terms of chemical characterization, the intermediate pyrolysis conditions produced bio-oils with phenolic profile. Among the tested materials, silica presented better phenolic yields, especially at higher temperatures (550C). These results are also superior to those found in current literature. Analyzing the composition of bio-oils from the standpoint of biofuel production, none of the materials tested showed considerable hydrocarbons yields. In general, silica had the best results in terms of yield and quality of bio-oil. Being an inert material, silica was more suitable for intermediate pyrolysis process, where the contribution of secondary reactions in the gas phase is high due to the residence time in reactor

Orientador: Rubens Maciel Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T05:06:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiazMateus_FabianAndrey_M.pdf: 2380896 bytes, checksum: be3b7c2cb01810009ddbc674d0b696e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Neste trabalho é desenvolvida a modelagem matemática e a simulação computacional de um forno para processos de conversão térmica de frações pesadas de petróleo. O modelo cinético das reações de conversão é tomada de Sugaya (1993) a qual consta de uma reação irreversível de primeira ordem com 9 lumps reacionais e 24 pseudocomponentes. Os 24 pseudocomponentes são caracterizados e suas propriedades são calculadas mediante diferentes correlações e métodos encontrados na literatura. À medida que a carga avança pela tubulação do forno, a reação ocorre gerando quantidades maiores de componentes leves alterando as condições de fluxo como decorrência de alterações físico-químicas. Estes efeitos são levados em consideração na modelagem desenvolvida. O estado da mistura é verificado para cada passo de integração mediante a equação Soave Redlich Kwong. No caso de escoamento bifásico, as propriedades do líquido e do vapor são calculadas para determinar o regime de escoamento e calcular o Holdup. Este parâmetro permite estimar as propriedades de transporte, os coeficientes de transferência e a perda de carga. Inicialmente é simulada uma unidade piloto de craqueamento térmico. Esta unidade consta de uma serpentina aquecida isotermicamente, fato pelo qual só balanço de massa é integrado. O programa encontra as constantes cinéticas mediante um algoritmo Newton ¿ Raphson, cuja função objetivo é a diferença entre a conversão calculada e a conversão medida. Finalmente o forno industrial é simulado. Balanços de massa, momento, energia e temperatura de parede são integrados. Os resultados obtidos apresentam boa concordância com os dados do forno 23H ¿ 1 (Refinaria Presidente Bernardes, Cubatão) para craqueamento térmico. Deposição de coque na tubulação é avaliada para analisar o comportamento do processo. O programa desenvolvido permite o estudo do processo de craqueamento térmico para processos de conversão térmica como o coqueamento retardado e visco-redução. Novos parâmetros operacionais podem ser estudados, diferentes cargas e estratégias de controle podem ser simuladas e avaliadas com o software desenvolvido / Abstract: The mathematical modeling and the computational simulation of a process furnace for thermal conversion of heavy oil fractions is developed in this work. Kinetics of conversion reactions is from Sugaya (1993). It is based in a first order irreversible reaction with 9 lumps and 24 pseudocomponents. The 24 pseudocomponents are characterized and their properties calculated by different correlations and methods available in the literature. As walks through the furnace tubes, the feed, initially liquid, reacts generating light fractions and gas. The state of the mixture is checked for each integration step by a subroutine based on the Soave Redlich Kwong equation. When two phases are flowing, properties of the liquid and vapor are calculated to determine the flow regime and the holdup. This parameter allows to calculate the transport properties and the heat transfer and pressure drop coefficients. Initially, a thermal cracking pilot plant is simulated. This unit is formed by a reactor coil that is isothermally quenched; consequently, only mass balance is integrated. The program finds the kinetic constants by a Newton ¿ Raphson algorithm whose objective function is the difference between the calculated and measured conversion. Finally, an industrial furnace is simulated. Mass, momentum, wall temperature and energy balances are integrated. Results show good agreement whit the data reported from the industrial furnace 23-H-1 (Refinery Presidente Bernardes, Cubatão) for thermal cracking. Coke deposition in tubes is tested to analyze the performance of the process. The program developed in this work allows an insight study of thermal cracking processes such as delayed coking and visbreaking. New operational parameters, different feeds, control strategies and many other parameters can be studied. / Mestrado / Desenvolvimento de Processos Químicos / Mestre em Engenharia Química

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