Solids Tote

Overview

	Size / Design Variable	Volume
	Costing Variable (Built-in Model)	Volume
	Costing Variable (User-Defined Model)	Volume in m3
	Emissions Port	No
	Hosts	Batch Storage in a Tote (for Bulk Solids) Procedure   Continuous Storage in a Tote (for Bulk Solids) Procedure

A Solids Tote is used to represent an equipment resource typically used to host a vessel procedure to simulate storage of solids. It is a tote like vertical vessel with no venting ports. The procedure can be executed in a batch or continuous mode.

Solids Tote: Equipment Tab

The default maximum volume of a solids tote 2500.0 L. See also Vessel: Equipment Tab.

Sizing: Design Mode

In design mode, the user specifies the max volume, and the program calculates the number of units and volume based on the volume demand that is specified by the operations carried out as part of the (one or more) unit procedures hosted by the equipment resource. Typically, even during the span of a single procedure, more than one operations may demand different volumes. The software will size the vessel based on the largest demand on vessel volume amongst all operations executed in the vessel. If that volume exceeds the maximum volume specification then the software will assume multiple number of identical units, each with a volume that does not exceed the max volume specification, so that the total volume is equal to the demand. From the vessel volume and the height-diameter aspect ratio, the actual dimensions of each vessel (height and diameter) are calculated.

Depending on the unit procedure’s nature (batch vs continuous), the demand on vessel volume by each operation is calculated as follows: If the unit procedure is batch (e.g., Batch Vessel Procedure in a Reactor), then for each operation the demand on liquid volume is divided by the operation’s max allowable working to vessel volume ratio to determine the operation’s demand on vessel volume. In that case, the equipment’s max allowable working to vessel volume ratio acts as a constraint on the operation’s max allowable working to vessel volume ratio (i.e., the operation’s max working to vessel volume ratio must not exceed the equipment’s max working to vessel volume ratio). If the unit procedure is continuous (e.g., Continuous Stoichiometric Reaction in a CSTR), then for each operation the demand on liquid volume is divided by the operation’s working to vessel volume ratio to determine the operation’s demand on vessel volume. In that case, the equipment’s max allowable working to vessel volume ratio acts as a constraint on the operation’s working to vessel volume ratio (i.e., the operation’s working to vessel volume ratio must not exceed the equipment’s max working to vessel volume ratio).

For more information on sizing, see Batch Storage (for Bulk Solids): Modeling Calculations and Continuous Storage (for Bulk Solids): Modeling Calculations.

Sizing: Rating Mode

In rating mode, the volume of the vessel and the number of units are provided by the user. As in the design mode case, the actual dimensions of each vessel (height and diameter) are calculated from the vessel volume and the height-diameter aspect ratio. The program also calculates exactly as in the design mode case the demand on vessel volume by the operations carried out as part of the unit procedure(s) hosted by the equipment resource, and if any operation’s vessel volume demand of exceeds the actual vessel volume, it generates a warning.

Costing

Equipment purchase cost is based on total bin volume and material of construction. It is supplied by the built-in model assuming as material of construction SS304.