Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15255/CABEQ.2015.2202
Exergoeconomic Distillation Sequencing by Multi-objective Optimization through a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
Y. Özçelik
orcid.org/0000-0002-9484-7020
; a) Yuzuncu Yıl University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Kampüs, Van, 65080, Türkiye; b) Ege University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Bornova, İzmir, 35100, Türkiye
S. O. Mert
orcid.org/0000-0002-7721-1629
; Yuzuncu Yıl University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Kampüs, Van, 65080, Türkiye
Abstract
While trying to optimize sharp distillation processes, the number of possible column sequences significantly increases as the number of components that make up the feed mixture increases. As a result, proper sequencing with maximum exergetic profit and minimum exergy destruction becomes harder to achieve. In this study, an exergoeconomic multi-objective optimization was applied to the distillation sequences of three separate hydrocarbon mixture cases, by means of a genetic-algorithm-based solver software. A
computer program (DISMO) was developed in-house to achieve this functionality. The results indicate that the created algorithm was quite applicable in determining the optimum sequencing in distillation, as it successfully created the Pareto Solution Set and suggested the optimum configurations. This study also presented an opportunity to conduct a parametric investigation on various weighting factors for objective functions. As the importance given to a specific objective was increased, the optimization results had a tendency to favour that specific objective through arrangement of sequencing as expected,
though the profit and sequencing converged to a single result after a certain threshold.
Keywords
distillation sequencing; genetic algorithm; exergoeconomy; multi-objective optimization; distillation
Hrčak ID:
167259
URI
Publication date:
6.10.2016.
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