Simultaneous site-wide energy, waste and production optimization - industrial case studies

Kentaro Hirata, Haruo Sakamoto, Kwok Yuen Cheung, Lionel O'Young, Chi Wai Hui

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Abstract

In a petrochemical plant site, production, waste treatment and utility systems are three essential elements. They interact with each other via the flows of utility, waste and material, hence creating a lot of options and economic trade-offs among them. To obtain the optimal solutions for the trade-offs, site-wide bottlenecks must be located accurately. Then the three systems could be debottlenecked and optimized simultaneously. This paper proposes the Site-Model, a mathematical model, to debottleneck and optimize the petrochemical plant site site-widely. The model adopts a technique called the marginal value analysis (MVA) for achieving the task.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)925-930
Number of pages6
JournalComputer Aided Chemical Engineering
Volume18
Issue numberC
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Marginal Value Analysis
  • Site-Model
  • Site-Wide Optimization
  • Total-Site

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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