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The document outlines tutorial questions for a Process Modelling and Dynamics course, focusing on developing mathematical and dynamic models for interconnected tanks and surge tanks. It includes tasks such as performing degrees of freedom analysis, modeling pressure dynamics, and considering variations in operational conditions. Additionally, it addresses modeling a mixing tank with different cases regarding volume and density variations.

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Tutorial 5

The document outlines tutorial questions for a Process Modelling and Dynamics course, focusing on developing mathematical and dynamic models for interconnected tanks and surge tanks. It includes tasks such as performing degrees of freedom analysis, modeling pressure dynamics, and considering variations in operational conditions. Additionally, it addresses modeling a mixing tank with different cases regarding volume and density variations.

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Process Modelling and Dynamics CHEM3010 Semester 2/2025 – 2026

Tutorial 5: Develop Mathematical and Dynamic Models


Question 1:

Two tanks are connected together in the following unusual way in Fig. 1.

(a) Develop a model for this system that can be used to find h1, h2, w2, and w3 as functions

of time for any given variations in inputs.


(b) Perform a degrees of freedom analysis. Identify all input and output variables.

Question 2:

Two surge tanks are used to dampen pressure fluctuations caused by erratic operations of a
large air compressor (See Fig. 2).

(a) If the discharge pressure of the compressor is Pd(t) and the operating pressure of the
furnace is Pf (constant), develop a dynamic model for the pressures in the two surge
tanks as well as for the air mass flows at points a, b, and c. You may assume that the
valve resistances are constant, that the valve flow characteristics are linear, for
example, wb = (P1 − P2)/Rb, that the surge processes operate isothermally, and that the
ideal gas law holds.
(b) How would you modify your model if the surge tanks operated adiabatically? What if
the ideal gas law were not a good approximation?
Process Modelling and Dynamics CHEM3010 Semester 2/2025 – 2026

Question 3:
Model a mixing tank with two feed streams, as shown below. Assume that there are two
components, A and B. C represents the concentration of A. (C1, is the mass concentration of A
in stream 1 and C2 is the mass concentration of A in stream 2).

Model the following cases:

i. Constant volume, constant density.


ii. Constant volume, density varies linearly with concentration.
iii. Variable volume, density varies linearly with concentration.

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