Optimal design of an autothermal membrane reactor coupling the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3113-3127

  Abo Ghander, Nabeel S ^a   Logist, Filip ^b   Grace, John R ^a   Van Impe, Jan F M ^b   Elnashaie, Said S E H ^c   Lim, C Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Misr University for Science and Technology   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bi objective optimization; Coupled reactions; Membrane fixed bed reactor; Normal boundary intersection method; Normalized normal constraint method; Optimal design

Indexed keywords

BI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; CONSTRAINT METHODS; COUPLED REACTION; COUPLED REACTIONS; FIXED-BED REACTORS; NORMAL BOUNDARY INTERSECTIONS; OPTIMAL DESIGN;

ANILINE; BIOREACTORS; DEHYDROGENATION; DESIGN; ETHYLBENZENE; HYDROGENATION; MEMBRANES; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; NITROBENZENE; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; STYRENE;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77950689895     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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