I want to design citric acid plant by submerged fermentation process with Aspen HYSYS. But the problems are Aspen HYSYS doesn't provide sorghum properties, many unit operations for submerged fermentation process, many intermediate components, and Aspergillus niger microorganism. Are there any simulation software specifically for fermentation industry?
Thank you.
Yes you can do this. You can add sorghum properties in Hysys environment
Aspen HYSYS software is not the proper tool to simulate fermentation processes. I recommend the following software for this purpose:
SuperPro Designer: Fermentation Simulation
For your question on modeling a component that doesn't exit in HYSYS library, you can create a hypothetical component but you need to enter its physical and thermodynamic parameters.
Hope this helps answer your question.
Good luck!
Professor Yehia Khalil
Yale University
USA
Thank you for answering my question, Dr. Kiran, Prof. Yehia, and Lorena Pedraza.
Dr. Kiran, are there any paper about simulation of fermentation process with Aspen HYSYS?
Prof. Yehia and Lorena Pedraza, do you have paper about simulation of fermentation process with Super Pro Desisgner? I need an example of simulation with Super Pro Designer because I haven't used that software.
Thank you.
You can see couple of papers on this topic. Refer following links:
file:///C:/Users/kiran.patil/Downloads/1263-3507-1-PB.pdf
http://www.revistadechimie.ro/pdf/BUMBAC%20GH.pdf%207%2012.pdf
In this paper you can see how SuperPro is used in addition to Matlab simulation
Hi, please is this use of sorghum the same as oxidation of sucrose to produce citric acid? I am currently working on plant design for citric acid production using ASPEN Denny Gunawan
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