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Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant

An industrial Ethanol Amine (EA) production plant was simulated and optimized. Due to lack of accurate reaction rate information, the first step involved obtaining reliable kinetic data from the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) industrial database and calculation using error minimization method. In...

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Main Authors: Zahedi, Gholamreza, Amraei, Saeideh, Biglari, Mazda
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Published: Springer Verlag 2009
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QD Chemistry
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13103/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11814-009-0254-z
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spelling my.utm.131032011-07-18T07:42:15Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13103/ Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant Zahedi, Gholamreza Amraei, Saeideh Biglari, Mazda QD Chemistry An industrial Ethanol Amine (EA) production plant was simulated and optimized. Due to lack of accurate reaction rate information, the first step involved obtaining reliable kinetic data from the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) industrial database and calculation using error minimization method. In the next step, by implementing the obtained reaction kinetics the whole plant was simulated using Hysys software. Simulation results were compared with the SRI data and showed that there is acceptable agreement between simulation and the measured industrial data. In the next step of study by applying the gradient search (GS) optimization technique the plant was optimized using: feeding ammonia to ethylene oxide (EO) molar ratio, water flow rate in the feed stream, and reactor temperature as optimization variables. Employing process profit as objective function the optimal operating conditions were found to be: ammonia to EO ratio of 5 (mol/mol), water flow rate of 52.59 kg mol/hr and reactor temperature of 85 °C. Springer Verlag 2009-11 Article PeerReviewed Zahedi, Gholamreza and Amraei, Saeideh and Biglari, Mazda (2009) Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 26 (6). 1504 -1511. ISSN 0256-1115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11814-009-0254-z doi:10.1007/s11814-009-0254-z
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topic QD Chemistry
spellingShingle QD Chemistry
Zahedi, Gholamreza
Amraei, Saeideh
Biglari, Mazda
Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant
description An industrial Ethanol Amine (EA) production plant was simulated and optimized. Due to lack of accurate reaction rate information, the first step involved obtaining reliable kinetic data from the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) industrial database and calculation using error minimization method. In the next step, by implementing the obtained reaction kinetics the whole plant was simulated using Hysys software. Simulation results were compared with the SRI data and showed that there is acceptable agreement between simulation and the measured industrial data. In the next step of study by applying the gradient search (GS) optimization technique the plant was optimized using: feeding ammonia to ethylene oxide (EO) molar ratio, water flow rate in the feed stream, and reactor temperature as optimization variables. Employing process profit as objective function the optimal operating conditions were found to be: ammonia to EO ratio of 5 (mol/mol), water flow rate of 52.59 kg mol/hr and reactor temperature of 85 °C.
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author Zahedi, Gholamreza
Amraei, Saeideh
Biglari, Mazda
author_facet Zahedi, Gholamreza
Amraei, Saeideh
Biglari, Mazda
author_sort Zahedi, Gholamreza
title Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant
title_short Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant
title_full Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant
title_fullStr Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant
title_full_unstemmed Simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant
title_sort simulation and optimization of ethanol amine production plant
publisher Springer Verlag
publishDate 2009
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13103/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11814-009-0254-z
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