Optimal design and control of a reactive distillation system

abstract

• This article presents the design and control of a reactive distillation system utilizing recent advances in mixed integer dynamic optimization. A high fidelity dynamic model is used to predict the behavior of the process under time-varying disturbances. Design and control decisions, involving both discrete and continuous variables, are simultaneously optimized leading to a more economically attractive and better controlled system than that obtained by following a sequential optimization approach. It is shown that the resulting design and control scheme can guarantee feasible operation under bounded uncertainty at a minimum total average cost, representing 17% savings over the original design.

authors

• Pistikopoulos, Stratos

published proceedings

• ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION

author list (cited authors)

• Panjwani, P., Schenk, M., Georgiadis, M. C., & Pistikopoulos, E. N.

citation count

• 19

complete list of authors

• Panjwani, P||Schenk, M||Georgiadis, MC||Pistikopoulos, EN

publication date

• October 2005

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Engineering Optimization  Journal

keywords

• Mixed-integer Dynamic Optimization
• Process Design And Control
• Reactive Distillation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/03052150500211903

start page

• 733

end page

• 753

volume

• 37

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03052150500211903