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MD-1 Review of State of the Art of Computed Mass Transfer (CMT) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Expected Benefit toMembers: CFD modeling is an alternative to column testing and may have significant cost savings and time advantages. Present Situation and Proposed Research: The current capabilities of CFD/CMT are not well understood within FRI. The first phase of a project in this area would be to review the state of the art of CFD/CMT and produce a Topical Report of the state of the art in these fields. This report would delineate the current uses of CFD/CMT and the near term/mid-term/ long term uses of these tools. Proposed Internals and Test System: None required. Estimated Unit Time: Not required. Estimated Additional Costs (Beyond Unit Time): Work would likely be contracted out ($15,000). Background and Discussion: CFD modeling has been applied to quite a few systems of interest to chemical engineers. At some point, it should be interesting in analyzing industrial scale mass transfer. It would clearly be nice to have CFD capabilities through consultants that could at least screen FRI tests References: Sun, Z.M., Yu, K.T., Yuan, X.G., and Liu, C.J., "A Modified Model of Computational Mass Transfer for Distillation Column", Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 62, 2007, p. 1839-1850. Developmental Research Idea

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