2008 Annual Meeting
(67e) One History of Industrial Process Synthesis
Author
Siirola, J. J. - Presenter, Eastman Chemical Company
This presentation will trace the development and use of process synthesis techniques in one company over more than three decades. Adventures in task-oriented systematic generation approaches, heat integration developments, energy-efficient distillation sequencing, mass separating agent synthesis, process intensification, nonideal separation synthesis algorithms, and process network superstructure approaches will be discussed, illustrated by actual industrial examples.