The Economic Assessment of Alternatives in Optimising Control

JOSE LUIS FIGUEROA; PARISA BAHRI; GEOFF BARTON; JOSÉ ALBERTO ROMAGNOLI

Computer-Aided Process Engineering: Fourth European Symposium

Institution of Chemical Engineers

Lugar: Dublin; Año: 1994; p. 207 - 213

Chemical processes are usually designed to work at a specified set of conditions, fixed by a combination of plant behavior, process variable constraints and economic objectives.  The optimal steady-state operating conditions may be readily calculated using various commecial flowsheeting packages.