Reformer Optimization Model

KINPTR is used several thousand times a year for both research and commercial reformer estimates. The model has four principal uses commercial monitoring, reformer diagnostics, optimization, and research and development guidance. 

KINPTR is also used extensively for commercial planning guidance and reformer operation optimization. The model has been used to improve linear program accuracy for short-range refinery planning and crude oil supply and distribution studies. It is also used to optimize reformer economics by proper selection of operating conditions within refinery constraints. 

In 2001 Hyprotech and Synetix announced an ammonia plant simulation that can be used for modeling, on-line monitoring and optimization of the plant. The simulation includes Synetix reactor models, customized thermodynamic data and information to simulate the performance of a range of catalysts. The reactor models in the simulation include Primary and Secondary Reformers, High Temperature Shift converter, Low Temperature Shift Converter, Methanator and Ammonia Synthesis Converter80. 

Synthesis gas production from combined CO2 reforming and partial oxidation of natural gas Maximization of both methane conversion and carbon monoxide selectivity while maintaining tiie hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio close to 1. Real-coded NSGA with blend crossover Empirical models were used for optimization. Mohanty (2006)... 

It is my pleasure and honor to edit this first book on MOO with focus on chemical engineering applications. Although process modeling and optimization has been my research interest since my doctoral studies around 1980, my interest and research in MOO began in 1998 when Prof. S.K. Gupta, Prof. A.K. Ray and I initiated collaborative work on the optimization of a steam reformer. Since then, we have studied optimization of many industrial reactors and processes that need to meet multiple objectives. I am thankful to both Prof. S.K. Gupta and Prof. A.K. Ray for the successful collaboration over the years. 

Optimization of the performance of ammonia converters Concluding remarks Computer simulation package for industrial ammonia converters Precise Modelling of Industrial Steam Reformers and Methanators... 

Complete conceptual design of plate-based reformer, water gas shift and preferential oxidation reactors and simulation models of each reactor using available catalyst kinetics. Begin optimization studies and parametric sensitivity analysis. 

A fast, reliable, and specialized CFD model for PEM fuel cell simulation can be very useful in fuel cell design optimization and operation control. In this project, a unified PEM fuel cell simulation model has been successfully established. This project started in FY 2000 with 2-D single-phase models. In FY 2001, the 2-D models were successfully transformed into a unified 3-D model for hydrogen feed. In FY 2002, this established 3-D model was extended to include reformate feed, accounting for the poisonous effect of carbon monoxide as well as the dilution effect of the reformate gas stream on the anode side. Based on this 3-D model with the geometry of a single fuel cell, a preliminary stack model was established. Extensive experiments in our lab and industry interactions were carried out to improve and calibrate the computation model. 

A Deactivation Model for Methanol-Steam Reformation on Cu/ZnO/A Oa Catalyst for Optimizing the Production of Fuel-Cell Hydrogen... 

For above mines, from sustainable development of mine area view point, resources optimization deployed model is the model which makes every mine balanced development by redistricting and allocating coal resource, human resources, equipment resource, at the same time, implementing technology reformation. 

Chen Z, Yan Y, Elnashaie SSEH (2(X)3) Modeling and optimization of a novel membrane reformer for higher hydrocarbons. AIChE J 49 1250-1265... 

Akbari M H, Ardakani A H S and Tadbir M A (2011), A microreactor modeling, analysis and optimization for methane autothermal reforming in fuel cell applications , Chem Eng J, 166,1116-1125. 

Simakov, D. S. A., Sheintuch, M. (2011). Model-hased optimization of hydrogen generation by methane steam reforming in autothermal packed-bed membrane reformer. AIChE Journal, 57, 525-541. 

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