Batch Distillation: Simulation, Optimal Design, and Control, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781138073173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 400 str.

Urmila Diwekar

Opis

Helping readers gain a solid, hands-on background in batch processing, this best-selling text explains how to effectively design, synthesize, and make operations decisions related to batch processes. Along with updating the references, this edition features special sections on complex column configurations and azeotropic, extractive, and reactive distillation. It also includes a new chapter on various kinds of uncertainties in batch distillation and a new chapter describing software packages for simulation, design, optimization, and control. A solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.

Spis treści

Introduction. Basic Modes of Operation. Column Dynamics. Simplified Models. Optimization. Complex Columns. Complex Systems. Batch Distillation Control. Consideration of Uncertainty. Batch Distillation Software Programs. Index.

O autorze

Urmila Diwekar is the president and founder of the Vishwamitra Research Institute, a non-profit research organization that develops methods, algorithms, and approaches for rapid, reliable, and robust multiple objective optimal decision making under uncertainty. She was previously a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Diwekar has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.