A general strategy to design cost-efficient supercritical extraction processes is applied to a process to dehydrate acetone with supercritical carbon dioxide. The extractor, distillation column, heat exchangers, and compressors in the process flow sheet are simulated, and a nonlinear program is used to locate the optimal designs with respect to both the utility and annualized costs.
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