Consequently, we developed and experimentally validated a Cooking Stoves Thermal Performance Simulator (Cook-STePS), based on a 1-D heat and mass transfer model and implemented in an Excel® and VBA environment, in order to provide additional information about how the performance of a cooking system would change, in selected conditions, as compared to the baseline laboratory performance.
Features of the simulator include multiple adsorbents, multicomponent gas mixtures, choice of equilibrium and mass transfer models and multiple process steps.
The accurate prediction of diffusion coefficients of methane in liquid hydrocarbons is one of the key parameters for improving the prediction of compositional oil reservoir simulators, for designing surface facilities, and for high pressure gas/liquid mass transfer operations.
The computer code consists of an extremely user-friendly graphical user interface and a very powerful numerical simulator that handles rigorous modeling of thermodynamics, activity based kinetics, rate-based mass transfer and supports all unit operations relevant for gas treating plants (absorbers, strippers, flash drums, heaters, pumps, compressors, mixers and splitters, etc.).
The pore network simulator is found to match well the experimental results, provided that the local mass transfer coefficients are properly modeled.
The dissolution modules of the simulator used previously developed Gilland Sherwood type phenomenological models of NAPL dissolution to estimate mass transfer coefficients that are upscaleable to multidimensional flow conditions found at field sites.
A process simulator for design of a cryogenic air separation plant by packed columns with structured packing was developed by use of our heat and mass transfer model.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Mass transfer and wall reaction 8.2.3.
