Computer Applications to Chemical Engineering. Process Design and Simulation

499 Pages·1980·6.238 MB·English

by  Robert G. Squires and G. V. Reklaitis (Eds.)

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In Computer Applications to Chemical Engineering; Squires, R., el al.;
ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1980.
Computer Applications to
Chemical Engineering
Process Design and Simulation
Robert G. Squires, EDITOR
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PREFACE
his volume contains selected papers from a five-session symposium
Α on "Computer Applications to Chemical Engineering Process Design
and Simulation" sponsored by the I&EC Division of ACS held in Wash­
ington, D.C. in September of 1979. Although shorter symposia on special
topics in chemical engineering computation have been held under the
auspices of the AIChE, this was the first symposium devoted to the entire
field to be held in the United States. The European Federation of
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applications. Next the significant developments in numerical methods
for minimizing nonlinear constrained and unconstrained functions are
traced. The new developments in recursive quadratic programming
methods for general nonlinear programs should be of particular interest
to chemical engineers since they appear to offer a significant advance
over the generalized reduced gradient techniques that have dominated
the field for some ten years. Finally, research in computer-aided
synthesis is appraised, and a summary is given of the significant results
in six problem areas: heat exchanger networks, separation systems with
and without heat integration, reaction paths, total flowsheets, and control
systems.
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These wide-ranging reviews are followed by analyses of progress in
several specialized problem categories: chemical and physical equilibrium
computations; vapor-liquid equilibrium computations including single
and multistage VLE separations, multiliquid phase systems, and VLE
systems with reaction and electrolytes; treatment of measurement errors
in process networks and computations of choking flows in gas pipe
networks.
Next follows a series of reports on important developments in
computational methods or program packages incorporating novel com
putational features.
Finally, the volume is capped with papers discussing computer
applications involving modeling, design, and control spanning a wide
range from microbial conversion to industrial reactor modeling to drug
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A State-of-the-Art Review
Ε. M. ROSEN
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ing the motivation of the contributors. Academic work
is motivated by a desire to explain nature, a desire to
solve unsolved problems and, for pragmatic reasons, a
desire to attract funding. Academic work is usually
found in the literature.
Industrial work is motivated by profit, which in
turn leads to a desire to increase productivity and a
desire to increase robustness of solutions. Industrial
organizations judiciously choose among competing ideas
and programs. The implementations carried out to solve
their problems are not generally found in the literature.
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4 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Reviews, Books and Projects. The general field
was reviewed m 1975 by Motard, Shacham, and Rosen (1)
and in a comprehensive fashion in 1977 by Hlavacek (2^) .
A first book on the subject is scheduled to be re
leased in the latter half of 1979 (3).
An indepth evaluation of the field was afforded
by the ASPEN project at MIT sponsored by the U. S.
Department of Energy. The project was started June 1,
1976 and is entitled, "Computer-Aided Industrial
Process Modeling". Its quarterly and annual reports
are available from the National Technical Information
Service (£).
The User Interface. A wide variety of stand alone
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General Direction of the Field. The character
istics of early flowsheeting systems and their limita
tions were defined by Evans and Seider in 1976 (11).
They also attempted to define the criteria for an ad
vanced computing system.
Several trends have been noted, however, in this
field over the last few years:
1. Use of flowsheeting systems has become widespread.
Many have been developed to meet the particular
needs of their environments (12, 13, 14) and often
serve as a repository of the company's or develop
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