Taking into account environmental criteria in the design of a process: Application to steam methane reforming by performing a multi-objective techno-economic optimisation of the system

Christine Mansilla (christine.mansilla@cea.fr), Rodrigo Rivera-Tinoco (rodrigo.rivera_tinoco@mines-paristech.fr), M. Dumas and F. Werkoff
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Christine Mansilla: TECH ECO (ex-ITESE) - Institut Technico-Economie - CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) - CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Université Paris-Saclay
Rodrigo Rivera-Tinoco: CEP - Centre Énergétique et Procédés - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
M. Dumas: SFME - Service Fluide numériques, Modélisation et Etudes - DM2S - Département de Modélisation des Systèmes et Structures - CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) - CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Université Paris-Saclay
F. Werkoff: TECH ECO (ex-ITESE) - Institut Technico-Economie - CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) - CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Université Paris-Saclay

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Abstract: In the current context of sustainable development, industrial process development should no longer only take economic goals into account. Environmental criteria should be considered as well. Therefore, multi-objective optimisations should be carried out. A techno-economic model of steam methane reforming was implemented through the use of genetic algorithms. Different criteria can be then simultaneously considered. The optimisation result represents one objective versus the other: the hydrogen production cost and the carbon dioxide emissions of the process. This allows making compromises between the objectives. These compromises can be led either by regulations or by an overcost linked to taxes, for example.

Keywords: multi-objective optimisation; techno-economics; steam methane reforming; CO2 emissions; genetic algorithms; plants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in International Journal of Green Energy, 2008, 5 (4), pp.268- 280. ⟨10.1080/15435070802229183⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/15435070802229183

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