Rigorous design of distillation columns using surrogate models based on Kriging interpolation.

Autor: Quirante, Natalia, Javaloyes, Juan, Caballero, José A.
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Zdroj: AIChE Journal; Jul2015, Vol. 61 Issue 7, p2169-2187, 19p
Abstrakt: The economic design of a distillation column or distillation sequences is a challenging problem that has been addressed by superstructure approaches. However, these methods have not been widely used because they lead to mixed-integer nonlinear programs that are hard to solve, and require complex initialization procedures. In this article, we propose to address this challenging problem by substituting the distillation columns by Kriging-based surrogate models generated via state of the art distillation models. We study different columns with increasing difficulty, and show that it is possible to get accurate Kriging-based surrogate models. The optimization strategy ensures that convergence to a local optimum is guaranteed for numerical noise-free models. For distillation columns (slightly noisy systems), Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions cannot be tested directly on the actual model, but still we can guarantee a local minimum in a trust region of the surrogate model that contains the actual local minimum. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 61: 2169-2187, 2015 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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