Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Distillation processes account for a substantial share of the industrial energy demand. Yet, these energy requirements can be reduced by a variety of energy integration methods, including various forms of direct heat integration, multi-effect distillation, thermal coupling and vapor recompression. Consequently, these intensification methods should be evaluated quantitatively in comparison to each other for individual separation tasks, instead of benchmarking single options with conventional sequences or relying on simplified heuristics. In order to overcome the computational burden of a broad assessment of a large number of process alternatives, a computationally-efficient framework for the energetic and economic evaluation of such energy integrated distillation processes is presented, which builds on thermodynamically-sound shortcut models that do not rely on constant relative volatility and constant molar overflow assumptions.
Source: Systems and Control Transactions
DOI: 10.69997/sct.169219
Authors: Momme Adami, Dennis Espert, Mirko Skiborowski
Institution: Hamburg University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412038045