Thermodynamic bounds and selection of technologies in the petrochemical industry

Anastassios Sophos; Enrique Rotstein; George Stephanopoulos

doi:10.1016/0009-2509(80)85095-0

Thermodynamic bounds and selection of technologies in the petrochemical industry

Anastassios Sophos, Enrique Rotstein, George Stephanopoulos

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1049-1065
Number of pages	17
Journal	Chemical Engineering Science
Volume	35
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2509(80)85095-0
State	Published - 1980
Externally published	Yes

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