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CDU Process Flowsheets & Simulations

Explore 2 validated, solved CDU simulation flowsheets in MaximaLabs — real components: naphtha, kerosene, diesel, residue, light_gas_oil, heavy_gas_oil. Open any one directly in your browser.

Solved via: PENG-ROBINSON.

Crude
crude
dist
cuts
btms
CDU
Naphtha
Kerosene
Diesel
Residue
Jamnagar, Gujarat, India

Crude distillation (preset cuts)

An atmospheric crude column fractionating a petroleum feed (naphtha → kerosene → diesel → residue) into ordered side cuts — refinery support via pseudos.

6 unit ops • PENG-ROBINSON

17 0

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Crude
Washwater
hot
cold
hot
cold
HX1
Desalt MIX
Desalter
Brine
HX2
Fired Heater
crude
dist
cuts
btms
CDU
COND
vap
liq1
liq2
Reflux DRUM
GAS
Naphtha
SOUR Water
Steam1
Steam2
Steam3
liq
gas
gas
rich
Strip KERO
liq
gas
gas
rich
Strip LGO
liq
gas
gas
rich
Strip HGO
KERO
LGO
HGO
Strip Vent1
Strip Vent2
Strip Vent3
Residue
Port Arthur, Texas, USA

Crude distillation unit (full train)

A fuller atmospheric CDU: a crude/residue preheat exchanger, a desalter (wash water mixed in, then split off as brine), a fired heater, the multi-draw column, three steam side-strippers recovering kerosene / light gas oil / heavy gas oil, and an overhead condenser + three-phase reflux drum (fuel gas / naphtha / sour water). A pumparound heat-integration loop (drawing liquid off an interior stage, cooling it externally against crude, and returning it colder to preheat the column's own upper trays) was attempted -- both a 2-loop and a 1-loop version -- but proved too numerically expensive to converge in reasonable time and was dropped rather than shipped half-tuned; everything else in the reference PFD is real. From the ChemSep casebook (crude distillation).

27 unit ops • PENG-ROBINSON

17 2

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