Surrogate based Optimisation for Design of Pressure Swing Adsorption Systems

  • Joakim Beck*
  • , Daniel Friedrich
  • , Stefano Brandani
  • , Serge Guillas
  • , Eric S. Fraga
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a cyclic adsorption process for gas separation and purification. PSA offers a broad range of design possibilities influencing the device behaviour. In the last decade much attention has been devoted towards simulation and optimisation of various PSA cycles. The PSA beds are modelled with hyperbolic/parabolic partial differential algebraic equations and the separation performance should be assessed at cyclic steady state (CSS). Detailed mathematical models together with the CSS constraint makes design difficult. We propose a surrogate based optimisation procedure based on kriging for the design of PSA systems. The numerical implementation is tested with a genetic algorithm, with a multi-start sequential quadratic programming method and with an efficient global optimisation algorithm. The case study is the design of a dual piston PSA system for the separation of a binary gas mixture of N 2 and CO 2 .

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Aided Chemical Engineering
PublisherElsevier B.V.
Pages1217-1221
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameComputer Aided Chemical Engineering
Volume30
ISSN (Print)1570-7946

Keywords

  • Dual piston pressure swing adsorption
  • Kriging
  • Surrogate based optimisation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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