Reactor network synthesis attainable regions

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. 

Rooney, W.C., Hausberger, B.P., Biegler, L.T., Glasser, D., 2000. Convex attainable region projections for reactor network synthesis. Comput. Chem. Eng. 24, 225-229. 

Zhou, W., Manousiouthakis, V.I., 2006. Non-ideal reactor network synthesis through IDEAS Attainable region construction. Chem. Eng. Sci. 61, 6936-6945. 

Attainable Region (/ / ) is a systematic geometric method for the synthesis of a complex chemical reactor network. The concept has been developed in the last 15 years, starting with the pioneering works of Glaser and Hildebrand (1987). The visit of the website www.wits.ac.za (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) may serve both as introduction and update in this topic. 

This paper describes an integrated MINLP synthesis of overall process schemes using a combined synthesis / analysis approach. The synthesis is carried out by a multilevel-hierarchical MINLP optimization of the flexible superstructure, whilst the analysis is performed in an economic attainable region (EAR). The role of the MINLP synthesis step is to obtain a feasible and optimal process structure, and the role of the subsequent EAR analysis step is to verify the MINLP solution and to propose in the feedback loop, any profitable superstructure modifications for the next MINLP. The main objective of the integrated synthesis is to exploit interactions between the reactor network, separator network and the remaining part of the heat/energy integrated process scheme. 

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