A collocation approach to distillation column design Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractA reduced‐order collocation method is applied to the optimal design of distillation columns. The resulting number of equations is determined by the user and is independent of the numbers of stages in the column sections. The collocation method furthermore permits these stage numbers to be treated as continuous variables, thus extending the discrete solution set. This greatly facilitates the optimization. Several demonstration problems are worked out.

authors

• Swartz, Christopher L E
• Stewart, WE

status

• published 

publication date

• November 1986

has subject area

• 0904 Chemical Engineering (FoR)
• 0914 Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy (FoR)
• Chemical Engineering (Science Metrix)

published in

• AIChE Journal  Journal

keywords

• Engineering
• Engineering, Chemical
• Science & Technology
• Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/aic.690321108

start page

• 1832

end page

• 1838

volume

• 32

issue

• 11