From Lab to Digital Twin: Estimating Simulation Parameters for Batch Columns from Experimental Data

The Batch Column in CHEMCAD is a powerful unit operation that allows the fast, simple, and reliable estimation of the feasibility of a batch distillation process. Whether you’re designing a new column, developing new separation processes in existing columns, optimizing current plants, or troubleshooting issues, this unit operation can perform all these functions and more. The objective of this paper is to introduce and find the parameters required for creating the DigitalTwin of an existing batch distillation plant. The considered plant is a batch column allocated in the laboratory for Thermal Process Technology of the Berlin University of Applied Science (BHT).However, the presented methodology can be applied to a plant of any size.