A General Framework for Process Synthesis, Integration, and Intensification

Demirel, Salih Emre; Li, Jianping; Hasan, M. M. Faruque

doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.8b05961

A General Framework for Process Synthesis, Integration, and Intensification

Journal Article · Mon Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.8b05961· OSTI ID:1642429

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Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Texas A&M University
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)

Process synthesis, integration, and intensification are the three pillars of process design. Current synthesis and integration methods are able to find optimal design targets and process configurations when all the alternatives are known beforehand. Process intensification, on the other hand, combines multiple physicochemical phenomena and exploits their interactions to create innovative designs. Often times, these designs are not known beforehand, and a phenomena-level representation of chemical processes are required to identify them. This disconnection between the three paradigms limits the ability to systematically discover optimal design pathways. We demonstrate that the building block representation, originally proposed in our earlier work on process intensification, has the potential to bridge this gap. Depending on the attributes assigned to the interior and the boundaries of these two-dimensional abstract building blocks, they can represent various intensified or isolated phenomena at the lowest level, various tasks at the equipment level, and various unit operations at the flowsheet level. Here, this common multiscale representation enables an mixed-integer nonlinear optimization-based single framework for the sequential or simultaneous synthesis, integration, and intensification of chemical processes. Such a general framework is critical to reduce the risk of eliminating potential intensification pathways and candidate flowsheets at the conceptual design stage. The framework is demonstrated using a case study on an ethylene glycol process.

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Research Organization:: RAPID Manufacturing Institute, New York, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0007888

OSTI ID:: 1642429

Journal Information:: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal Name: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 58; ISSN 0888-5885

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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