Solid Separator Unit Operation - Technical Information
The solid separator unit is used to separate the solid phase material from a mixture of feed streams. It requires both overhead and bottoms product streams. The unit operates adiabatically at the lowest of the individual feed stream pressures.
Calculation Method
The solid separator provides the option of specifying the fraction of the solid components in the total feed that is removed in the bottoms stream. The default fraction of the solid components removed in the bottoms stream is 1.00. An adiabatic flash calculation is used to determine the product phases and the outlet temperature based upon the thermal condition of the combined feed.
The solid separator unit supports both VLE (two phase) and VLLE (three phase) calculations to determine the individual phase compositions. See the VLE Model and the VLLE Model for more details.
Feed and Product Streams
The solid separator unit can have up to ten (10) feed streams. The inlet thermal condition is determined by an adiabatic flash calculation at the lowest feed stream pressure.
The solid separator requires both overhead and bottoms product streams.
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