Optimal Synthesis and Scheduling Strategies for Batch Azeotropic Distillation Processes

The design of azeotropic distillation processes has always been an important issue for process engineers. For example, Feng et al. (2000) used a graphical technique to identify all possible operations in an azeotropic distillation

CONTENTS

Introduction ......................................................................................................... 613 System Classication ......................................................................................... 614 Plausible Operations ........................................................................................... 616 State-Task Network Synthesis ........................................................................... 616 Scheduling Strategies ......................................................................................... 618

Short-Term Scheduling Model ................................................................. 618 Cyclic Scheduling Model .......................................................................... 619

Conclusion ........................................................................................................... 620 References ............................................................................................................. 620

system by resorting to the rst principles and by logically sequencing such units. However, since the available studies are all concerned with the continuous processes, it is desirable to modify the existing methods for the synthesis and scheduling of batch processes.