Gas Absorption Computed Using the Successive Over-Relaxation (SOR) Method

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Consider a tray absorption column used to remove an impurity from a gas stream. A pure solvent is used for this absorption operation. The solvent molar flow rate is and the gas molar flow rate is
. Both
and
are considered constant (i.e., the dilute system hypothesis remains valid). The number of equilibrium stages is
, the value of the slope
of the equilibrium line (
) is set to
, the solvent-to-gas molar flow rate ratio
, and the mole fraction of the impurity in the gas fed to the absorption column is chosen to be
.
Contributed by: Housam Binous (April 2012)
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