Modelling was used for the design of new acetyl acetone reactor

Project title	Modelling was used for the design of new acetyl acetone reactor
User company name	WACKER-Chemie
Industry sector	Chemicals
Production process type	Acetyl acetone reactor
Application area	Product/Process Design Optimisation
Country of residence of the user	Germany
Employees	2000+
Year the project started	2002
Tool(s)	THERMO Link to the tool: http://www.belsim.com/Products_main.htm
Vendor of the tool	Belsim http://www.belsim.com/
Pay-back time in months	N/A
Type of simulation used	Equipment Static Modelling
Short description of the project	The objective of the project was to modify the design of the acetyl acetone reactor. The first step was the building of simulation model to better understand the phenomena in the existing reactor in order to have the thermodynamic properties and the kinetic model. The second part was the dynamic modelling of the new reactor. As a result an adiabatic zone was added after the heated sections of the reactor. Afterwards the model has been used by the operators for simulation and training. Success story http://www.belsim.com/Applications/AN-Wacker-02.pdf
Soft Benefits	N/A
Public quantitative benefits	The project resulted in 14 % production increase of the acetyl acetone plant.


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