U.S.-South Africa Cooperative Research: Attainable Regions and Mathematical Programming for Waste Minimization in Chemical Processes

美国-南非合作研究：化学过程中废物最小化的可实现区域和数学规划

• 批准号: 9810501
• 负责人: Lorenz Biegler
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; South; Africa; Cooperative; Research

This award supports a cooperative research project between Lorenz Biegler, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, and David Glasser, School of Process and Materials Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. The project is entitled "Attainable Regions and Mathematical programming for Waste Minimization in Chemical Processes." Process modification to minimize the production of hazardaous and toxic byproducts has captured considerable industrial attention over the past decade. A promising strategy to waste minimization in chemical processes is to develop improved reactor designs and reactor networks that avoid the production of these byproducts in the first place. In this way, the downstream separation and cleanup costs are reduced or even eliminated. To deal with this important problem, the collaborative research effort between Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) will develop process synthesis strategies that are centered on the reactor network itself. During the past decade, the research group in South Africa has worked on geometric approaches to solving this problem while the US group has developed computational algorithms based on process optimization. This joint venture combines the best of both approaches and plans to develop superior strategies for reactor network design for waste minimizing chemical processes.

该奖项支持卡内基梅隆大学化学工程系Lorenz Biegler和南非约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学工艺与材料工程学院David Glasser的合作研究项目。该项目名为“化学过程中废物最小化的可实现区域和数学规划”。在过去十年中，为尽量减少有害和有毒副产品的生产而修改工艺引起了工业界的相当大的注意。在化学过程中，将废物最小化的一个有希望的策略是开发改进的反应堆设计和反应堆网络，首先避免这些副产品的产生。通过这种方式，降低甚至消除了下游的分离和清理成本。为了解决这一重要问题，卡内基梅隆大学（CMU）和威特沃特斯兰德大学（WITS）之间的合作研究将开发以反应堆网络本身为中心的过程综合策略。在过去的十年里，南非的研究小组一直致力于用几何方法来解决这个问题，而美国的研究小组则开发了基于过程优化的计算算法。该合资企业结合了这两种方法的优点和计划，为减少化学过程中的废物制定了优越的反应堆网络设计战略。