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Determination of optimal reactor type

J.D. Paynter, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1970 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 9, pp 1415-1422
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In this paper, the problem of determining the optimal reactor type as dictated by reaction kinetics is considered, and the problem is formulated such that the axial dispersion coefficient is chosen as a function of reactor residence time to optimize reactor performance.
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This article is published in Chemical Engineering Science.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Plug flow reactor model & Continuous stirred-tank reactor.

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Investigation on evolutionary computation techniques of a nonlinear system

TL;DR: The main aim of this work is to show that such a powerful optimizing tool like evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can be in reality used for the simulation and optimization of a nonlinear system.
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A case study for optimal reactor networks synthesis: styrene polymerization

TL;DR: In this paper, an optimal network synthesis of chemical reactors producing polystyrene by a bulk continuous industrial technology is presented. But the procedure applied consists of four steps: proposal of the reactor network superstructure, mathematical modeling of the superstructure and optimization of the superstructures, analysis by simulation of the optimal values.

An algorithmic method for reactor network synthesis

TL;DR: This study presents a novel nonlinear programming (NLP) formulation for optimally generating this reactor network that includes networks with ideal and nonideal reactors as well as complex mixing patterns.
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On the development of knowledge driven optimisation methods - Application to complex reactor network synthesis.

TL;DR: A hybrid optimisation approach, combining the stochastic rule-based search with deterministic techniques, is developed to promote efficient fine-tuning of the final structure.

Reactor network synthesis for isothermal conditions Reactor network synthesis for isothermal conditions Reactor network synthesis for isothermal conditions Reactor network synthesis for isothermal conditions

TL;DR: In this paper, a computational systematic procedure for isothermal Reactor Network Synthesis (RNS) is presented and a superstructure of ideal CSTR and PFR reactors is proposed and the model is formulated as a constrained Nonlinear Programming (NLP) problem.
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Quasi-linearization, non-linear boundary value problems and optimization

TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-linearization technique was used to solve non-linear differential equations of the two-point boundary value type encountered in chemical engineering, which can be used to overcome the boundary value difficulties in the calculus of variation.
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