Before You Begin
This course is going to step through our ProMax Foundations manual. Please feel free to download a PDF version of this document, and watch a quick overview of what this manual includes.
ProMax Foundations Manual (PDF)
Foundations Manual Overview(2:55)
Introduction to Process Simulation using ProMax
The first several exercises are designed with a focus on creating a project, and finding general information from the created project. The related exercises are summarized below.
[-] Exercise 1: Simple Gas Plant
This exercise is designed to give hands-on experience with the Visio drawing interface as ProMax uses it, and an introduction to making specifications within ProMax. Special emphasis is given to drawing and modifying blocks, streams, and stream connections. Creating an environment for use within the project is shown. Blocks covered in this exercise include: heat exchangers, compressors, separators, simple distillation columns, and process stream recycles. Analyses covered include: phase diagram analysis (including phase diagram generation and finding critical information for a stream), vapor pressure analysis (including finding the RVP and TVP of a liquid stream), and line sizing analysis.
Drawing the Simple Gas Plant (6:50)
Specifying the Simple Gas Plant (11:14)
Questions (5:56)
[-] Exercise 2: Simple Sour Water Stripper
This exercise is designed as a continuation of how to make specifications within ProMax. Blocks covered in the exercise include: heat exchangers, compressors, and simple distillation columns. Analyses covered include: phase diagram analysis (including phase diagram generation and finding critical information for a stream) and line sizing analysis.
Specifying the Simple Sour Water Stripper (6:50)
Questions (3:32)
[-] Exercise 3:Simple MDEA Sweetening Unit
An example is shown from the ProMax Examples folder to present a solved amine sweetening unit simulation. This provides a method to discuss the process for engineers unfamiliar with the basics of amine sweetening, and give some background information on the approach ProMax takes when modeling the amine sweetening process. Emphasis is given to the tray internal information required to utilize the TSWEET Kinetics rate-based model. The exercise is then provided to allow attendees to model an amine sweetening unit using information shown from the example. Newly covered are the saturator and make-up/blow-down blocks. Topics covered include modeling a column with attached condenser/reboiler, ionic information of a stream, lean/rich approach in the contactor, and the lean/rich loading of amine streams.
Overview (5:50)
Specifying the Simple MDEA Sweetening Unit (13:34)
Questions (8:00)