Reactive absorption: Optimal process design via optimal modelling

Optimal design of complex reactive separations is inconceivable unless reli able process models are available. Such models have to be both rigorous eno ugh in order to reflect the process complexity and simple enough in order t o ensure feasibility of process simulations. In this respect, an optimal mo del should represent a kind of a consensus between the rigour and simplicit y, and its development requires a comparison of both detailed and simplifie d process models with experimental data. From this viewpoint, reactive abso rption operations with their pronounced kinetic character and complex non-i deal behaviour provide one of the best objects for studying. This work give s a detailed analysis of the problem supplemented by the examples of indust rial importance. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.