Gujarat institute of technology

GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

B.E. (Chemical Engineering)

CH 804 Process Simulation and Optimization

Sr. No.	Subject	Teaching Scheme (Hrs.)			Exam Scheme (Marks)
		Lect	Tut	Pract	Theory 3 Hrs.	Sessional	T/W	Pract	Total
CH-804	Process Simulation and Optimization	3	-	3	100	50	25	50	225

CHEMICAL PROCESS SIMULATION

1. General concepts of simulation for process design- introduction, process simulation modes, methods for solving nonlinear equations, recycle partionoing and tearing, simulation examples.

2. Process Flow sheet Optimization-description of problem, introduction to constrained nonlinear programming, derivation of successesive quadratic programming, process optimization with modular simulators, equation oriented process optimization.

CHEMICAL PROCESS OPTIMIZATION

1. Problem Formulation:

The nature and organization of optimization problems, Formulation of Objective functions.

2. Optimization Theory and Methods:

Basic concepts of optimization, optimization of unconstrained functions; one-dimensional search, unconstrained multi variable optimization, linear programming and applications, non-linear programming with constraints, optimization of stacked and discrete processes.

3. Application of optimizations:

Heat transfer and energy conservation, separation processes, fluid flow systems, chemical reactor design and operation etc.

4. Optimization approaches to process synthesis and design- basic concepts for algorithmic methods, synthesis of heat exchanger networks and distillation columns,, simultaneous optimization and heat integration, optimization techniques for reactor network synthesis, structural optimization of process flow sheet.

Text Books:

1. Edgar Thomas, Himmelblau David, “Optimization of Chemical Processes” , 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill (2001)

2. Lorenz T. Biegler, Ignacio E. Grossmann, Arthur W. Westerberg, “Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design”, Prentice Hall of India.

Reference Books:

1. Gordon S.G. Beveridge, Robert S. Schechter, “Optimization: Theory and Practice” McGraw Hill