Doctoral Dissertations
Abstract
"Overdesign is applied to chemical processes to include additional equipment for improved process reliability or to account for deviations from average conditions. An efficient method to optimize the overdesign of a complex chemical process is developed for use on a flowsheet simulation program. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by simulating the sulfuric acid process with metallurgical feed gas on the flowsheet program PROPS. The process is optimized for reliable and variable performance by the adaptive random search algorithm"-- Abstract, p. xi
Advisor(s)
Gaddy, J. L.
Committee Member(s)
Park, Efton
Mollenkamp, Robert A.
Findley, Marshall E., 1927-1991
Rigler, A. K.
Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Degree Name
Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Publication Date
1976
Pagination
xi, 340 pages
Rights
© 1976 Frank Joseph Doering, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Thesis Number
T 4246
Print OCLC #
5995487
Recommended Citation
Doering, Frank Joseph, "Optimal process overdesign with a flowsheet simulator" (1976). Doctoral Dissertations. 375.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/375
Comments
This dissertation has been prepared in the styles utilized by the publication Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Process Design and Development, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal. Pages 1 47 will be presented for publication in the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Process Design and Development. Pages 48 - 75 will be presented for publication in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal. Pages 76 - 100 will be presented for publication in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal. Appendices A - F have been added for purposes normal to thesis writing.