JosГ© MarГ­a Ponce-Ortega - Optimization of Process Flowsheets through Metaheuristic Techniques

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This book presents a general framework to implement a link between process simulators and optimization through metaheuristic techniques. The book describes step-by-step the methodology to implement this link for different process simulators and with different metaheuristic methods.

The aim of this book is to provide the readers the needed knowledge to implement optimizations of process flowsheets through links between process simulators and metaheuristic approaches. This way, basic knowledge about simulation through process simulators is needed. To implement this link between process simulation and metaheuristic techniques, the approach is divided into three fundamental sections: process simulation, metaheuristic algorithm, and implementation of the link between process simulation and optimization, which are described in the following chapters.

Chapter also presents the basics about the management to manipulate simulations of chemical and industrial processes.

Chapter also presents a detailed explanation of the presented methodology to implement the link between process simulators and optimization, which corresponds to the linking of programs. This part of the book is the main contribution of the proposed methodology. For its better understanding, the steps of the proposed methodology are first explained. Then, the needed code is provided to implement the appropriate link between simulation software and stochastic algorithms. For this purpose, the sequence to be followed is mentioned step by step, indicating how to call the needed variables.

Chapter shows the evaluation performance of the different software considered for implementing the link for the optimization of process flowsheets through process simulators and metaheuristic techniques.

Chapters shows the optimization of another industrial process (biodiesel in SuperPro Designer ).

This book also includes some tutorial videos that show, step by step, the proposed methodology to implement a link between process simulators and optimization through metaheuristic optimization approaches. These videos are prepared to show the implementation of the proposed approach for different process simulators and with different alternatives to implement the metaheuristic approach.

This book presents a multi-objective optimization framework for optimizing chemical processes. The proposed framework implements a link between process simulators and metaheuristic techniques. The proposed approach is general, and there can be used any process simulator and any metaheuristic technique. This book shows how to implement links between different process simulators such as Aspen Plus, HYSYS, SuperPro Designer, and others, linked to metaheuristic techniques implemented in Matlab, Excel, C++, or other programs. This way, the proposed framework allows optimizing any process flowsheet implemented in the process simulator and using the metaheuristic technique, and this way the numerical complications through the optimization process can be eliminated. Furthermore, the proposed framework allows using the thermodynamic, design, and constitutive equations implemented in the process simulator to implement any process.