Optimization of co-production air separation unit based on MILP under multi-product deterministic demand

Fulin Kong, Yuxin Liu, Lige Tong, Wei Guo, Yinan Qiu and Li Wang

Applied Energy, 2022, vol. 325, issue C, No S0306261922011187

Abstract: Optimizing gas distribution is one of the most important energy management issues in process industries such as metallurgy and the chemical industry. The air separation unit (ASU) is characterized by the simultaneous production of multiple products (oxygen, nitrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid argon) and the mutual restriction of each product. The existing single-product scheduling models are not applicable to the actual process and the multi-product scheduling models are only for production processes and usually do not consider constraints such as ASU start/stop. Therefore, for the production as well as the transmission and storage processes of the co-production air separation system, the paper developed a MILP model, which uses a proxy model to express the production space of ASUs. This model minimizes oxygen emission based on avoiding frequent startup and shutdown of ASU, which uses the start-stop and load regulation of ASU, the start-stop of liquefier, and vaporizer as means, and considers device operating constraints. We verified the feasibility of the method by combining actual cases application and analyzing the result of the influence of single product optimization results on the balance of other products.

Keywords: Captive gas plant; Air Separation Unit; Production scheduling; Multiple products; MILP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119850

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