ABSTRACT
Science and technology are witnessing drastic and dramatic challenges today. Engineering science is moving from one paradigm toward another. Technology of petroleum refining stands between deep scientific introspection and deep scientific vision. The depletion of fossil fuel sources has challenged the visionary world of petroleum engineering and chemical process engineering. In this treatise, the author rigorously points out the application of optimization science and multi-objective optimization in designing fluidized catalytic cracking unit, a component in petroleum refining. In the beginning of the treatise, the author deals with fluidized catalytic cracking in particular and then delves deep into the science of 355 multi-objective optimization. Optimization science has changed the scientific landscape. Technological vision, scientific motivation, and deep scientific vision are the pillars of scientific endeavor in optimization science and the vast domain of modeling and simulation of petroleum refining unit. The crux of this treatise is to pinpoint the difficulties and the intricacies of modeling, simulation, optimization, and control of fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) with overall objective of furtherance of science and engineering. Scientific cognizance, scientific sagacity, and deep scientific understanding are of utmost need in the pursuit of scientific research today. This paper goes beyond wide scientific imagination and opens up newer avenues of scientific research pursuit in decades to come. Modeling and simulation are the heart of a chemical engineering endeavor today. The science of optimization needs to be reframed and reenvisioned with the progress of scientific and academic rigor in design of a FCCU today. The paper comprehensively reviews the recent status and future research trends in the field of modeling and simulation of petroleum refining units.
