Optimum process design using a search technique

The work consists of an optimization study of the design of a complete chemical plant. The process chosen is the manufacture of acetic anhydride by thermal cracking of acetone. There are involved fourteen design variables, two major recycles and six iterative, computational loops. The process includ...

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Main Author: Dharmadhikari, Shashikant Vasudeo
Published: University of Surrey 1971
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spelling ndltd-bl.uk-oai-ethos.bl.uk-4535622018-09-11T03:17:55ZOptimum process design using a search techniqueDharmadhikari, Shashikant Vasudeo1971The work consists of an optimization study of the design of a complete chemical plant. The process chosen is the manufacture of acetic anhydride by thermal cracking of acetone. There are involved fourteen design variables, two major recycles and six iterative, computational loops. The process includes the most important unit operations of chemical engineering. Emphasis is placed in two areas: developing computer procedures which perform the design of individual items of plant in considerable detail and in producing an optimization program for the integrated plant. An improved version of the Pattern Search method is presented, known as MOSP, and it is shown to be competitive with the best Direct Search techniques available. A new approach is offered for achieving global rather than local optima. The results show clearly the feasibility of optimization in process design and give quantitative informations, for the chosen example, of the optimum conditions.660.2832University of Surreyhttps://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.453562http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/844493/Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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Dharmadhikari, Shashikant Vasudeo
Optimum process design using a search technique
description The work consists of an optimization study of the design of a complete chemical plant. The process chosen is the manufacture of acetic anhydride by thermal cracking of acetone. There are involved fourteen design variables, two major recycles and six iterative, computational loops. The process includes the most important unit operations of chemical engineering. Emphasis is placed in two areas: developing computer procedures which perform the design of individual items of plant in considerable detail and in producing an optimization program for the integrated plant. An improved version of the Pattern Search method is presented, known as MOSP, and it is shown to be competitive with the best Direct Search techniques available. A new approach is offered for achieving global rather than local optima. The results show clearly the feasibility of optimization in process design and give quantitative informations, for the chosen example, of the optimum conditions.
author Dharmadhikari, Shashikant Vasudeo
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title Optimum process design using a search technique
title_short Optimum process design using a search technique
title_full Optimum process design using a search technique
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title_full_unstemmed Optimum process design using a search technique
title_sort optimum process design using a search technique
publisher University of Surrey
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