Rigorous modeling and simulation of molecular distillators: development ofa simulator under conditions of non ideality of the vapor phase

In this work, a more rigorous model of the vapor phase was considered in ch aracterizing the molecular distillation more realistically. The model used here tries to predict the behavior of the molecular distillation in terms o f several factors that, in a considerable way, influence the evaporation ef ficiency, e.g, design of the molecular distillators in relation to the dist ance between the evaporator and the condenser and their geometries, pressur e of the system, and condensation temperature. This model was developed in the literature by several authors. The objective here is to consider it in the DISMOL software (developed by the authors of this work) taking into acc ount the main contributions available. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All r ights reserved.