Optimization of process designs

As the impact of fuel cost on product cost continues to increase, so will the desirability of using available energy analysis in optimization of process designs. Efforts over recent years have resulted in many simplified methods for evaluating transports and destructions of available energy, which can be adapted for use on computers or programmable calculators. It is hoped that, with the removal of economic and theoretical barriers, second law... 

Charley, R.C., "Optimization of Process Design for Continuous Ethanol... 

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