TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermodynamic bounds and selection of technologies in the petrochemical industry
AU - Sophos, Anastassios
AU - Rotstein, Enrique
AU - Stephanopoulos, George
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Acknowledgements-The authors are grateful to Prof A G Fredrickson for the useful dtscusmons they had with him on the subject of thermodynamic avallablhty The partial support from NSF grant ENG 75-11165-A01 IS gratefully acknowledged
PY - 1980
Y1 - 1980
N2 - Thermodynamic availability is briefly reviewed, emphasizing its application to steady state flow systems undergoing physical or chemical changes. While thermodynamic availability provides an upper fixed bound for the energy performance of an industry, the creation of entropy provides a lower evolutionary one. These concepts are applied to the petrochemical industry, a representative large interactive system. The objectives: maximization of availability change, minimization of entropy creation, are formulated as large linear programming problems, whose solutions provide two bounding structures for the sector.
AB - Thermodynamic availability is briefly reviewed, emphasizing its application to steady state flow systems undergoing physical or chemical changes. While thermodynamic availability provides an upper fixed bound for the energy performance of an industry, the creation of entropy provides a lower evolutionary one. These concepts are applied to the petrochemical industry, a representative large interactive system. The objectives: maximization of availability change, minimization of entropy creation, are formulated as large linear programming problems, whose solutions provide two bounding structures for the sector.
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U2 - 10.1016/0009-2509(80)85095-0
DO - 10.1016/0009-2509(80)85095-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0018922255
SN - 0009-2509
VL - 35
SP - 1049
EP - 1065
JO - Chemical Engineering Science
JF - Chemical Engineering Science
IS - 5
ER -