Synthesis, design and optimization of alternatives to purify 2, 3-Butanediol considering economic, environmental and safety issues

Sánchez‐Ramírez, Eduardo; Quiroz‐Ramírez, Juan José; Hernández, Salvador; Hernández, Juan Gabriel Segovia; Contreras-Zarazúa, Gabriel; Ramírez‐Márquez, César

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2018.11.011

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“…This goal of sustainable process systems engineering presents formidable challenges due to the complex nature of the interacting factors, and sustainable process design solves large multiobjective optimization problems due to the nonlinear nature and the presence of degrees of freedom in the mathematical models that represent the processes to be designed . Furthermore, modification in the topology for the same process can also modify sustainability indexes . Despite the many definitions of the term sustainable, it is possible to identify some basic requirements that need to be satisfied before making claims about sustainability.…”

Section: Optimal Sustainable Processmentioning

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“…In particular, Jiménez-González et al propose clear mathematical strategies to evaluate those sustainability metrics. In this sense, sustainability can be viewed as a framework with targets to achieve economic, environmental, inherent safety indexes, and dynamic behavior, among others. − This work tries to analyze different topologies based on a modification of the conventional intensified design, for the reactive distillation process for lactic acid purification, and select the most promising ones according to sustainability metrics as proposed in the paper of Jiménez-González et al…”

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“…20 Furthermore, modification in the topology for the same process can also modify sustainability indexes. 21 Despite the many definitions of the term sustainable, it is possible to identify some basic requirements that need to be satisfied before making claims about sustainability. In particular, Jimeńez-Gonzaĺez et al 22 propose clear mathematical strategies to evaluate those sustainability metrics.…”

Section: Optimal Sustainable Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Innovative Reactive Distillation Process for the Sustainable Purification of Lactic Acid

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Lactic acid is commonly used in a wide range of fields, such as cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, chemistry, and food. During recent years, its use for new applications, such as the production of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers, green solvents, and oxygenated chemicals, have received considerable attention. However, the relatively high production cost of lactic acid hinders many large-scale applications. It is necessary to develop more efficient methods of separation and purification to cheapen lactic acid production processes. The main objective of this study is to investigate the use of process intensification, particularly the reactive distillation process, for a sustainable purification of lactic acid. To do so, there have been proposed, on the one hand, four intensified alternatives in which synthesis and design are based on thermal couplings and, on the other hand, three alternatives looking for water mass integration. Design and optimization of those modified configurations are carried out employing a stochastic optimization method, using as objective functions some metrics associated with the concept of sustainability (economics, environmental, and inherent safety indexes). A study on the dynamic performance of the configurations through the use of singular value decomposition is carried out in a complementary way. The results in the first redesign stage show improvements in all performance indexes. However, a great difference between the implementation of a thermal coupling that substitutes a condenser instead of a reboiler has been identified. The best scheme, based on a sustainability framework, resulted in a modified process, including a dividing wall column-based scheme.

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Section: Optimal Sustainable Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Optimal Sustainable Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Optimal Sustainable Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Innovative Reactive Distillation Process for the Sustainable Purification of Lactic Acid

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“…For the separation of three-component mixtures, if the direct and indirect sequences are used, two columns are required. In addition to these, a large number of potentially energy-saving alternatives have been proposed over the years, including three types of dividing-wall columns, − side-draw columns, − satellite columns, , etc.…”

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Regions of Optimality for Separation System Synthesis Using Rigorous Modeling, Stochastic Optimization, and Column Stacking

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Huang

Ward

2020

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

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Alternatives for the separation of three-component zeotropic mixtures are compared using simulation optimization with the total annual cost as the objective function. Conventional two-column sequences with and without column stacking are compared with three types of dividing-wall columns (DWCs). All processes are modeled with a rigorous process simulator and optimized using simulated annealing. The results are represented using ternary maps and used to regress parameters of a model that predicts the relative cost of process alternatives as a function of the feed composition, relative volatilities, and ease of separation index. The results highlight the importance of considering column stacking when choosing a process alternative for the ternary separation: in some cases, the region where the stacked two-column configuration is preferable to a dividing-wall column is significantly larger than the area where a conventional two-column configuration is preferable to a dividing-wall column.

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Synthesis, design and optimization of alternatives to purify 2, 3-Butanediol considering economic, environmental and safety issues

Cited by 25 publications

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Innovative Reactive Distillation Process for the Sustainable Purification of Lactic Acid

Innovative Reactive Distillation Process for the Sustainable Purification of Lactic Acid

Regions of Optimality for Separation System Synthesis Using Rigorous Modeling, Stochastic Optimization, and Column Stacking

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