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Calculations of Complex Chemical Reaction Equilibria using Free Energy Minimization and Arc-Length Continuation
  • Housam Binous,
  • Ahmed Bellagi
Housam Binous
National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology

Corresponding Author:binoushousam@yahoo.com

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Ahmed Bellagi
Universite de Monastir
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Abstract

In the present paper, we determine the chemical equilibrium compositions for two combustion reactions involving either hydrazine or propane at fixed high pressure and temperature values using several computational approaches. Then, we compute the chemical equilibria for reacting systems under a multitude of temperature and pressure conditions and various initial system compositions. These sensitivity analyses are based on a combination of the method of Lagrangian multipliers and the arc-length continuation technique. Indeed, three industrially relevant case studies are elucidated: (1) the synthesis of ammonia using the Haber process, (2) the gasification of a typical biomass surrogate: glucose using steam and (3) the gasification of cellulose using steam. For all the above reacting systems, our results are benchmarked against their counterparts obtained either from the ubiquitous process simulator: ASPEN-PlusĀ® or from data available in the open literature.
25 Apr 2021Submitted to Engineering Reports
26 Apr 2021Submission Checks Completed
26 Apr 2021Assigned to Editor
07 May 2021Reviewer(s) Assigned
26 Jun 2021Editorial Decision: Revise Major
02 Jan 20221st Revision Received
04 Jan 2022Submission Checks Completed
04 Jan 2022Assigned to Editor
09 Jan 2022Reviewer(s) Assigned
07 Feb 2022Editorial Decision: Accept