by ermorgan » 18 February 2013, 22:42
I believe it's a COUSCOUS PFR, it's from the Insert-->Unit Operation in the COFE menu. I can get an energy balance on the report, and by going to the "Balance" tab on the reactor menu. But I'm attempting to access the heat loss through the information streams, which proves more difficult. Right now, I'm getting the enthalpy flow across the reactor using the info streams and measurement device. It doesn't appear to include the heat of reaction, but maybe I'm wrong (I'm using heat of RXN in the solve routine). Under this assumption, I accessed the reaction rates for each reaction and manually calculated the heat rate inside the reactor. Seemed to work pretty well, and I got reasonable answers. I have no heat duty or cooling tubes, so perhaps if I add those in, the heat duty will be calculated automatically. I attached the (very messy) sheet, if you'd like to have a look.
Thanks for your help.
Eric