Reactor network synthesis is one of the key parts of chemical process synthesis.However, the solution procedures are very complicated.The concept of instantaneous value of objective function, and a geometrical method ...Reactor network synthesis is one of the key parts of chemical process synthesis.However, the solution procedures are very complicated.The concept of instantaneous value of objective function, and a geometrical method using the corresponding area of the curve of instantaneous value for reactor network synthesis were proposed.The application of the approach was illustrated with one case study involving complex reaction.The results were compared with the ones from references.It could be seen that the optimal reactor network could be obtained by using the approach, without solving the complicated large-scale nonlinear programming problem.This approach is straightforward by using the geometrical method for reactor network synthesis.展开更多
文摘Reactor network synthesis is one of the key parts of chemical process synthesis.However, the solution procedures are very complicated.The concept of instantaneous value of objective function, and a geometrical method using the corresponding area of the curve of instantaneous value for reactor network synthesis were proposed.The application of the approach was illustrated with one case study involving complex reaction.The results were compared with the ones from references.It could be seen that the optimal reactor network could be obtained by using the approach, without solving the complicated large-scale nonlinear programming problem.This approach is straightforward by using the geometrical method for reactor network synthesis.
