✦ LIBER ✦
Minimum cost design of a multimodal fluidized reactor-heater system involving an exponential function inside an integral equation
✍ Scribed by Douglass J. Wilde
- Publisher
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 822 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-1541
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A simple procedure for achieving the minimum cost design of a single reaction fluidized reactor system with feed and recycle heaters is presented and proven. The problem's mathematical interest stems from its multimodality, the handling of the exponential dependence of temperature, and the presence of an integral equation constraint. The proof technique is an extension of Lagrange's method, supplemented by ideas from geometric programming, extended to exponential and the integral functions.