Coupling pinch analysis and rigorous process simulation for hydrogen networks with light hydrocarbon recovery

In refineries,some hydrogen-rich streams contain considerable light hydrocarbons that are important raw materials for the chemical industry.Integrating hydrogen networks with light hydrocarbon recovery can enhance the reuse of both hydrogen and light hydrocarbons.This work proposes an automated method for targeting hydrogen networks with light hydrocarbon recovery.A pinch-based algebraic method is improved to determine the minimum fresh hydrogen consumption and hydrogen sources fed into the light hydrocarbon recovery unit automatically.Rigorous process simulation is conducted to determine the mass and energy balances of the light hydrocarbon recovery process.The targeting procedures are developed through combination of the improved pinch method and rigorous process simulation.This hybrid method is realized by coupling the Matlab and Aspen HYSYS platforms.A refinery hydrogen network is analyzed to illustrate application of the proposed method.The integration of hydrogen network with light hydrocarbon recovery further reduces fresh hydrogen requirement by463.0 m^(3)·h^(-1) and recovers liquefied petroleum gas and gasoline of 1711.5 kg·h^(-1) and 643 kg·h^(-1),respectively.A payback period of 9.2 months indicates that investment in light hydrocarbon recovery is economically attractive.

A unified graphical method for integration of hydrogen networks with purification reuse

Introducing purifiers into hydrogen network can enhance the recovery and reuse of hydrogen in refineries, further reducing the consumption of fresh hydrogen. Based on previous graphical methods, this work proposes a simple and unified graphical method for integration of hydrogen networks with purification processes. Scenarios with different hydrogen concentrations of purified product can be analyzed by the unified procedure. As a result, the maximum hydrogen saved by purification reuse can he identified and the corresponding purification process can be optimized, The proposed method is easy and non-iterative, and it is valid to purification processes with any feed concentration. A conventional hydrogen network is analyzed to test the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Exergy and exergoeconomic analyses for integration of aromatics separation with aromatics upgrading

Methanol to aromatics produces multiple products,resulting in a limited selectivity of xylene.Aromatics upgrading is an effective way to produce more valuable xylene product,and different feed ratios generate discrepant product distributions.This work integrates the aromatics separation with toluene disproportionation,transalkylation of toluene and trimethylbenzene,and isomerization of xylene and trimethylbenzene.Exergy and exergoeconomic analyses are conducted to give insights in the splitting ratios of benzene,toluene and heavy aromatics for aromatics upgrading.First,a detailed simulation model is developed in Aspen HYSYS.Then,300 splitting ratio sets of benzene and toluene for conversion are studied to investigate the process performances.The results indicate that there are different preferences for the splitting ratios of benzene and toluene in terms of exergy and exergoeconomic performances.The process generates lower total exergy destruction when the splitting ratio of toluene varies between 0.07 and 0.18,and that of benzene fluctuates between 0.55 and 0.6.Nevertheless,the process presents lower total product unit cost with the splitting ratio of toluene less than 0.18 and that of benzene fluctuating between 0.44 and 0.89.Besides,it is found that distillation is the biggest contributor to the total exergy destruction,accounting for 94.97%.

Global multiplicity of solutions to a defocusing quasilinear Schrodinger equation with the singular term

We consider a class of modified quasilinear Schrodinger equations-△u+k/2u△u^(2)=λα(x)u^(-α)+b(x)u^(β) in Ω with u(x)=0 on■Ω,where Ω■R^(N)is a bounded domain with a regular boundary,N≥3,a and b are bounded mensurable functions,0<α<1<β<2*-1 and k,λ≥0 are two parameters.We establish the global existence and multiplicity results of positive solutions in H^(1)_(0)(Ω)∩L^(∞)(Ω)for appropriate classes of parameters k andλand coefficients a(x)and b(x).

The Brezis-Nirenberg type critical problem for the nonlinear Choquard equation

We establish some existence results for the Brezis-Nirenberg type problem of the nonlinear Choquard equation -Δu=(integral ((|u(y)|^(2*)_μ/|x-y|~μ)dy) from Ω )|μ|^(2*_μ-2_u)+λu in Ω where Ω is a bounded dotain of R^N with Lipschitz boundary, λ is a real parameter, N≥3,2_μ~*=(2 N-μ)/(N-2)is the critical exponent in the sense of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality.

On a Class of Infinite-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems with Asymptotically Periodic Nonlinearities

The authors study the existence of homoclinic type solutions for the following system of diffusion equations on R × RN：{atu-xu ＋ b ·▽xu ＋ au ＋ V（t,x）v = Hv（t,x,u,v）,-atv-xv-b·▽xv ＋ av ＋ V（t,x）u = Hu（t,x,u,v）,where z =（u,v）：R × RN → Rm × Rm,a 〉 0,b =（b1,···,bN） is a constant vector and V ∈ C（R × RN,R）,H ∈ C1（R × RN × R2m,R）.Under suitable conditions on V（t,x） and the nonlinearity for H（t,x,z）,at least one non-stationary homoclinic solution with least energy is obtained.

Qualitative properties and classification of solutions to elliptic equations with Stein-Weiss type convolution part

In this paper,we study the qualitative properties and classification of the solutions to the elliptic equations with Stein-Weiss type convolution part.Firstly,we study the qualitative properties,such as the symmetry,regularity and asymptotic behavior of the positive solutions.Secondly,we classify the non-positive solutions by proving some Liouville type theorems for the finite Morse index solutions and stable solutions to the nonlocal elliptic equations with double weights.