(67e) One History of Industrial Process Synthesis
AIChE Annual Meeting
2008
2008 Annual Meeting
Computing and Systems Technology Division
Advances in Process Synthesis - Invited Session
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 2:30pm to 3:00pm
This presentation will trace the development and use of process synthesis techniques in one company over more than three decades. Adventures in task-oriented systematic generation approaches, heat integration developments, energy-efficient distillation sequencing, mass separating agent synthesis, process intensification, nonideal separation synthesis algorithms, and process network superstructure approaches will be discussed, illustrated by actual industrial examples.