Metaheuristic Optimization of Natural Resources in Thermal Cracking Process

An Overview of the Application of Harmony Search for Chemical Engineering Optimization

“…Boto et al [239] applied HS and GA to minimize the energy and water consumption in a thermal cracking process. e mass flow rates of naphtha into the furnaces, steam dilution ratio, temperature, induction to turbines, and the distillate to feed ratio in the demethanizer column were defined as the optimization variables.…”

CFD modelling of gas explosions: Optimising sub-grid model parameters

“…Gradient-free optimisation is less likely to be trapped in non-global optima than traditional non-linear optimisation algorithms (Queipo et al, 2005). The SMF approach is applied in several engineering applications, such as, e.g., (Boto et al, 2018;Loshchilov et al, 2010;Poethke et al, 2018), and multi-objective optimisation approaches in which evolutionary methods are employed, cf., e.g., (Gong et al, 2015;Pilát and Neruda, 2013).…”

Response surfaces for advanced consequence models: Two approaches

“…Gradient-free optimisation is less likely to be trapped in non-global optima than traditional non-linear optimisation algorithms (Queipo et al, 2005). The SMF approach is applied in several engineering applications, such as, e.g., (Boto et al, 2018;Loshchilov et al, 2010;Poethke et al, 2018), and multi-objective optimisation approaches in which evolutionary methods are employed, cf., e.g., (Gong et al, 2015;Pilát and Neruda, 2013).…”