Simultaneous optimization of crude oil refinery vacuum distillation column and corresponding ejector system

H.K. Khafaji, A. Shahsavand and S. H. Rajaee Shooshtari

Energy, 2024, vol. 294, issue C

Abstract: A vacuum distillation unit (VDU) is a relatively complex crude oil refining process that usually overlooked in researches. A detailed review of the corresponding literature reveals that most of the limited existing researches focus on either the study of the vacuum tower alone or its vacuum creating ejector system. For the first time, the combination of VDU tower and corresponding ejectors are studied in this article by resorting to coupling of Aspen-HYSYS simulation software with Ansys-FLUENT computational fluid dynamic. Both simulations were initially validated by using two sets of experimental and industrial data, borrowed from literature.

Keywords: VDU optimization; Steam ejector; CFD; Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.130702

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