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Write a matrix with the most relevant aspect for you and your colleagues (including your boss) and evaluate each topic in each simulator. You can ask to the two companies (Aspen, Simsci) for a two moth trial licensee and get a...
Is very common to process Refinery sludge and slope in the Coker Unit. for instance the relation for sludge is 0.25 Bbls of sludge/ton coke.
Your first step is to determine the amount of sludge/slop produce by your refinery by a material balance.
UOP has a process called THDA. In this A10+ are mixed with lighter aromatics (toluene)in the presence of H2 to produce bencene and toluene.
The process temperature is above 900 ºF depending the conversion required.
I aggre about all the book recomended before. I would like to include the book of E. J Henley / J. D. Seader Equilibrium stage separation operation in Chemical Process and the book of C. J. King Separation Process.