Heat integration in multipurpose batch plants using a robust scheduling framework

Esmael R. Seid and Thokozani Majozi

Energy, 2014, vol. 71, issue C, 302-320

Abstract: Energy saving is becoming increasingly important in batch processing facilities. Multipurpose batch plants have become more popular than ever in the processing environment due to their inherent flexibility and adaptability to market conditions, even though the same flexibility may lead to complexities such as the need to schedule process tasks. These are important features to producing high value added products such as agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers, food and specialty chemicals where the demand has grown in recent decades. Many current heat integration methods for multipurpose batch plants use a sequential methodology where the schedule is solved first followed by heat integration. This can lead to suboptimal results. In this paper, the heat integration model is built upon a robust scheduling framework. This scheduling formulation has proven to lead to better results in terms of better objective values, fewer required time points and reduced computational time. This is important as inclusion of heat integration into a scheduling model invariably complicates the solution process. The improved scheduling model allows the consideration of industrial sized problems to simultaneously optimize both the process schedule and energy usage. Both direct and indirect heat integration are considered as well as fixed and variable batch sizes.

Keywords: Heat integration; Scheduling; Multipurpose batch plants; Energy optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.04.058

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