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Software tools overview: process integration, modelling and optimisation for energy saving and pollution reduction

  1. Hon Loong Lam1,2,
  2. Jiří Jaromír Klemeš1,*,
  3. Zdravko Kravanja2,
  4. Petar Sabev Varbanov1

Article first published online: 2 SEP 2010

DOI: 10.1002/apj.469

Issue

Asia‐Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering

Special Issue: Resources Conservation and Planning

Volume 6, Issue 5, pages 696–712, September/October 2011

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Lam, H. L., Klemeš, J. J., Kravanja, Z. and Varbanov, P. S. (2011), Software tools overview: process integration, modelling and optimisation for energy saving and pollution reduction. Asia-Pacific Jrnl of Chem. Eng, 6: 696–712. doi: 10.1002/apj.469

Author Information

  1. 1

    EC MC Chair (EXC) INEMAGLOW, Centre for Process Integration and Intensification—CPI2, Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, Egyetem u. 10, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary

  2. 2

    Laboratory for Process Systems Engineering and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

*EC MC Chair (EXC) INEMAGLOW, Centre for Process Integration and Intensification—CPI2, Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, Egyetem u. 10, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 OCT 2011
  2. Article first published online: 2 SEP 2010
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 10 MAY 2010
  4. Manuscript Revised: 7 MAY 2010
  5. Manuscript Received: 8 FEB 2010

Funded by

  • EC project Marie Curie Chair (EXC). Grant Number: MEXC-CT-2003-042618
  • Bilateral SI-HU Project. Grant Number: TET SI-11/2008

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Keywords:

  • software tools;
  • process integration;
  • process modelling;
  • process optimisation;
  • energy saving

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of software tools based on long experience and applications in the area of process integration, modelling and optimisation. The first part reviews the current design practice and the development of supporting software tools. Those are categorised as: (1) process integration and retrofit analysis tools, (2) general mathematical modelling suites with optimisation libraries, (3) flowsheeting simulation and (4) graph-based process optimisation tools. The second part covers an assessment of tools which enable the generation of new sustainable alternatives to adapt to the future needs. They deal with waste, environment, energy consumption, resources depletion and production cost constrains. The emphasis of the sustainable process design tools is largely on the evaluation of process viability under sustainable economic conditions, synthesis of sustainable process and supply chain process maintenance and life cycle analysis. Major software tools development and the potential of the research-based tools for sustainable process design task are overviewed in the concluding part. Copyright © 2010 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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