Version 1
: Received: 28 July 2017 / Approved: 28 July 2017 / Online: 28 July 2017 (17:22:37 CEST)
How to cite:
Balbino Barbosa Filho, A.C. Domain's Sweep, a Computational Method to Optimise Chemical and Physical Processes. Preprints2017, 2017070087. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201707.0087.v1
Balbino Barbosa Filho, A.C. Domain's Sweep, a Computational Method to Optimise Chemical and Physical Processes. Preprints 2017, 2017070087. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201707.0087.v1
Balbino Barbosa Filho, A.C. Domain's Sweep, a Computational Method to Optimise Chemical and Physical Processes. Preprints2017, 2017070087. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201707.0087.v1
APA Style
Balbino Barbosa Filho, A.C. (2017). Domain's Sweep, a Computational Method to Optimise Chemical and Physical Processes. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201707.0087.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Balbino Barbosa Filho, A.C. 2017 "Domain's Sweep, a Computational Method to Optimise Chemical and Physical Processes" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201707.0087.v1
Abstract
Many of engineering’s problems are about to optimise equations, functions and process models equations which appear on common or even complex science’s cases. Most applied optimisation methods nowadays can only be used on particular cases, so the main objective of this article is to define a computational method that can optimise or even find target values for specified objective functions and variables, by just using computer effort. Chemical plants involve many differential equations and they can be optimised with more facility now. On this paper, there are shown as example, an optimisation for a chemical reactor, which is found the optimal temperature and volumetric flow rate of feed, for the given objective function being the composition of the desired product. Named Domain’s Sweep, it is an algorithm that evaluate given(s) mathematical function(s) and/or equation(s) by varying your(s) independent variable(s) through loops with a given step size and solving it after closing the degrees of freedom, and finally, with some condition statements, store all the optimum values of given or created objective functions with its respective independent variables. In another words, the user create an objective function and this method find the function’s maximum, minimum or a certain chosen target value, even if it does not have an inflection point in the given search interval of the independent variables.
Keywords
computational methods; optimisation; plant optimisation; chemical processes; physical processes; computational intelligence; maximum value; minimum value; functions
Subject
Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Orlando Xavier de Oliveira
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.