IDEAS Approach

1 Introduction In contrast to the total connectivity model, where a superstmcture representation is formulated specifically for the determination of the AR, the IDEAS framework (Burri et al., 2002) caters to the solution of more generalized reactor network synthesis problems. Candidate AR construction is one of many outputs that the IDEAS framework is capable of performing. 

The IDEAS approach is a reactor superstructure method that represents all reactor networks as the combination of two generalized blocks. When the system is viewed in this manner, the resulting equations describing the problem can be made linear. An advantage of this is that traditionally nonlinear reactor network problems may then be solved via an LP technique, such as that described by the LP formulations in Section 8.6.1. And as a result, the solution to the linear system is guaranteed to be globally optimal. 

A key difference between the IDEAS framework and the LP formulations in Section 8.6.1 is that the former allows for both CSTRs and PFRs in the superstructure model, whereas the latter considers only CSTRs. DSRs are not considered in the IDEAS framework, although, these may be approximated by using many PERs in series with sidestream addition. 

2 Basic Idea The IDEAS framework describes a generahzed reactor superstructure that may be used for addressing many reactor network synthesis problems. Construction of a candidate AR occurs by successive solution of a number of LP subproblems for different objective functions. The solution corresponding to each LP problem results in a different point on the AR boundary. Therefore, the computation of candidate ARs is resolved in a point-wise manner. The accuracy of the constraction is determined by the number of unknown variables used in each LP problem, whereas the number of points computed for the AR boundary depends on the number of individual LPs solved. 

The IDEAS framework seeks to represent a generalized reactor network as the combination of two blocks (Burri et al 2002)  

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Science 2001 294(5540) (October 5). (This issue contains a number of articles under the title Genome Unlocking Biology s Storehouse. They describe new ideas, approaches, and research related to genome information.)... 

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J j. F. Burri, S, D. Wilson, and V. Manousiouthakis., IDEAS approach to reactor network synthesis Application, to attainable region construction.. Accepted for publication in Comput. Chem. Eng., 2002. 

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The shrink-wrap method derives its name from the manner in which AR construction is carried out, and the geometric resemblance of this process to that of wrapping shrink-wrap over an object. Candidate ARs are constructed by the successive removal of unattainable points from the stoichiometric subspace. This is in contrast to the IDEAS approach, which grows regions outward. 

Zhou, W., Manousiouthakis, V.I., 2007. Variable density fluid reactor network synthesis—construction of the attainable region through the IDEAS approach. Chem. Eng. J. 129, 91-103. 

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Filters that output noncoherent detector statistics have, in our recent work [1], shown to be very powerful for grain noise suppression in ultrasonics. However, such filters require the operator to carefully specify a transient prototype as a model of the defect echoes which should be detected. Here a new approach is presented, based on the above ideas about perception, which eliminates the need for the operator to manually specify a defect prototype. 

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