2017 Annual Meeting
(19b) SPICE: A Computer-Aided Framework for Systematic Process Intensification of Chemical Enterprises
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Using several intensification examples, we will demonstrate the capabilities of the software framework in effective collection and transferring of input data through a user-friendly interface, and automatic generation of process flowsheet. In addition, we will discuss a systematic method, which has been implemented in SPICE, to automatize the conversion of building block-based diagrams to classical process flow diagrams and vice-versa. This method allows to systematically identify the primary and auxiliary units from the corresponding solutions of the building-block based MINLP model. Evaluation on flowrate variables between blocks gives the information on connectivity for construction of an adjacency matrix with nodes as identified units and edges as connectivity [12]. This adjacency matrix is used to interpret the connectivity within a process flowsheet.
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