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Mathematical Modeling Approaches for Optimization of Chemical Processes

Gabriela Corsano, Jorge M. Montagna, Oscar A.Iribarren

Nova Science Publishers 2009 | ISBN-10: 1604569425 | 91 Pages | PDF | 1 MB

Mathematical modelling is a powerful tool for solving optimisation problems in chemical engineering. In this work several models are proposed aimed at helping to make decisions about different aspects of the processes lifecycle, from the synthesis and design steps up to the operation and scheduling. Using an example of the Sugar Cane industry, several models are formulated and solved in order to assess the trade-offs involved in optimisation decisions. Thus, the power and versatility of mathematical modelling in the area of chemical processes optimisation is analysed and evaluated.





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Fortran Programs for Chemical Process Design, Analysis, and Simulation

A. Kayode Coker
Gulf Professional Publishing; (February 8, 1995) | ISBN: 0884152804 | Pages: 854 | PDF | 42 MB

This book gives engineers the fundamental theories, equations, and computer programs (including source codes) that provide a ready way to analyze and solve a wide range of process engineering problems.

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Nonlinear Computer Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Data

James F. Rusling, Thomas F. Kumosinski

Academic Press; 1 edition (February 7, 1996) | ISBN: 0126044902 | Pages: 268 | PDF | 10.6 MB

  Assuming only background knowledge of algebra and elementary calculus, and access to a modern personal computer, Nonlinear Computer Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Data presents the fundamental basis and procedures of data modeling by computer using 

nonlinear regression analysis. Bypassing the need for intermediary analytical stages, this method allows for rapid analysis of highly complex processes, thereby enabling reliable information to be extracted from raw experimental data.

   By far the greater part of the book is devoted to selected applications of computer modeling to various experiments used in chemical and biochemical research. The discussions include a short review of principles and models for each technique, examples of computer modeling for real and theoretical data sets, and examples from the literature specific to each instrumental technique. The book also offers detailed tutorial on how to construct suitable models and a score list of appropriate mathematics software packages.

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Numerical Techniques for Chemical and Biological Engineering Using MATLAB

Said S.E.H. Elnashaie, Frank Uhlig, Chadia Affane

ISBN: 978-0387344331 | 590 pages | Springer (December 18, 2006) | PDF | 9 Mb

This is a textbook for undergraduate students of chemical and biological engineering. It is also useful for graduate students and professional engineers and numerical analysts. All reactive chemical and biological processes are highly nonlinear allowing for multiple steady states.
 

his book addresses the bifurcation characteristics of chemical and biological processes as the general case and treats systems with a unique steady state as special cases. It uses a system approach which is the most efficient for knowledge organization and transfer. 

The book develops mathematical models for many commercial processes utilizing the mass-, momentum-, and heat-balance equations coupled to the rates of the processes that take place within the boundaries of the system. The models are solved numerically through MATLAB codes with emphasis on the design and optimization of the chemical and biological industrial equipment and plants, such as single and batteries of CSTRs, porous and nonporous catalyst pellets and their effectiveness factors, tubular catalytic and noncatalytic reactors, fluidized bed catalytic reactors, coupled fluidized beds such as reactor-regenerator systems (industrial fluid catalytic cracking units),fluidized bed reformers for producing hydrogen or syngas, fermenters for fuel ethanol, simulation of the brain acetylcholine neurocycle, anaerobic digesters,co- and countercurrent absorption columns, and many more. The book also includes verification against industrial data. The book's CD contains nearly 100 MATLAB programs which are meant to teach the readers how to solve a variety of important chemical and biological engineering problems. The algorithms include solving transcendental and algebraic equations, with and without bifurcation; as well as initial and boundary value ordinary differential equations.
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