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ENCIT 2018
Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering
MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION OF MICROALGAE CRUDE OIL FOR PURE HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION
Submission Author:
Iago Gomes Costa , PR
Co-Authors:
Iago Gomes Costa, Wellington Balmant, JOSÉ VIRIATO COELHO VARGAS, Luiz Rigatti, Matias Nicolas Muñoz, Leonardo Cavalheiro Martinez
Presenter: Matias Nicolas Muñoz
doi://10.26678/ABCM.ENCIT2018.CIT18-0238
Abstract
With the burning of fossil fuels, new energy sources end up being required to prevent the increase of CO2 and consequently global warming. To make microalgae hydrocarbons an usable fuel, a purification process is necessary since the hydrocarbons when extracted are contaminated with microalgae pigments and lipids. One type of purification is the fractional distillation, however this process consumes a lot of energy and therefore there is a need for optimization, which can be done by mathematical modeling. Therefore, the objective of this works mathematical modeling of fractional distillation of microalgae crude oil for pure hydrocarbon production. The methodology used was mass balance and energy by the volume elements method, which is based on the optimization of systems engineering of physical size of study. The advantage of this methodology is that consists of a simple sequence of validation of the model with necessary adjustments until the mathematical modeling reaches a value obtained experimentally. The simulations of the model describe the system well, correctly separating the proposed compounds at the beginning of the model. The model can be used for optimization of distillation after experimental validation.
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