Recent developments and challenges in optimization-based process synthesis

Q Chen, IE Grossmann - Annual review of chemical and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
This article first reviews recent developments in process synthesis and discusses some of
the major challenges in the theory and practice in this area. Next, the article reviews key …

Computational toolkits for model-based design and optimization

DT Agi, KD Jones, MJ Watson, HG Lynch… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Systematically review 82 model-based design (MBD) toolkits.•Dynamic,
multiscale, and interdisciplinary grand challenges drive software trends.•Organize MBD …

Optimal process operations in fast-changing electricity markets: framework for scheduling with low-order dynamic models and an air separation application

RC Pattison, CR Touretzky, T Johansson… - Industrial & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Today's fast-changing markets often require the granularity of production schedules to be
refined to time scales comparable to the time constants of a chemical process …

Performance of continuous hydrogen production from perhydro benzyltoluene by catalytic distillation and heat integration concepts with a fuel cell

T Rüde, Y Lu, L Anschütz, M Blasius, M Wolf… - Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The benzyltoluene‐based liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) system enables the safe
transport and loss‐free storage of hydrogen. At least 26% of the lower heating value of the …

Synthesis and simultaneous optimization of multi-heat source multi-pressure evaporation organic Rankine cycle with mixed working fluid

Z Liang, Y Liang, X Luo, J Chen, Z Yang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The organic Rankine cycle (ORC)'s performance relies on heat source properties, cycle
structures, and working fluids. Influences of these factors, however, are often …

A trust region filter method for glass box/black box optimization

JP Eason, LT Biegler - AIChE Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Modern nonlinear programming solvers can be utilized to solve very large scale problems in
chemical engineering. However, these methods require fully open models with accurate …

Systematic and efficient optimisation-based design of a process for CO2 removal from natural gas

AM Ecker, H Klein, A Peschel - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural gas is an important resource for bridging technology on the way to mostly renewable
power. A significant number of natural gas sources with high CO 2 contents have not been …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of the Dulmage–Mendelsohn decomposition for debugging nonlinear optimization problems

RB Parker, BL Nicholson, JD Siirola… - Computers & Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonlinear modeling and optimization is a valuable tool for aiding decisions by engineering
practitioners, but programming an optimization problem based on a complex electrical …

Optimal diafiltration membrane cascades enable green recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries

NP Wamble, EA Eugene, WA Phillip… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Novel processes are urgently needed to recycle critical materials (eg, cobalt, lithium, nickel,
and manganese) from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). These separations are vital both to …

Thermodynamic, economic, and emissions assessment of integrated power to methanol concept with membrane-based biogas up-gradation and plasma electrolysis

A Riaz, YD Chaniago, A Hussain, R Andika… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The utilization of carbon dioxide to create valuable products such as methanol shows
promise for addressing the issue of carbon emissions and global warming. Concurrently, it …