Proceedings of FOCAPD 2024ISSN: 2818-4734
Volume: 3 (2024)
LAPSE:2024.1620
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LAPSE:2024.1620
Computer-Aided Mixture Design Using Molecule Superstructures
Philipp Rehner, Johannes Schilling, André Bardow
August 16, 2024. Originally submitted on July 9, 2024
Computer-aided molecular and process design (CAMPD) tries to find the best molecules together with their optimal process. If the optimization problem considers two or more components as degrees of freedom, the resulting mixture design is challenging for optimization. The quality of the solution strongly depends on the accuracy of the thermodynamic model used to predict the thermophysical properties required to determine the objective function and process constraints. Today, most molecular design methods employ thermodynamic models based on group counts, resulting in a loss of structural information of the molecule during the optimization. Here, we unlock CAMPD based on property prediction methods beyond first-order group-contribution methods by using molecule superstructures, a graph-based molecular representation of chemical families that preserves the full adjacency graph. Disjunctive programming is applied to optimize molecules from different chemical families simultaneously. The description of mixtures is enhanced with a recent parametrization of binary group/group interaction parameters. The design method is applied to determine the optimal working fluid mixture for an Organic Rankine cycle.
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Energy Conversion, Exergy Efficiency, Molecular Design, Optimization, Process Design
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Rehner P, Schilling J, Bardow A. Computer-Aided Mixture Design Using Molecule Superstructures. Systems and Control Transactions 3:876-882 (2024) https://doi.org/10.69997/sct.187490
Author Affiliations
Rehner P: ETH Zurich, Energy and Process Systems Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
Schilling J: ETH Zurich, Energy and Process Systems Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
Bardow A: ETH Zurich, Energy and Process Systems Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
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Systems and Control Transactions
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3
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876
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882
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2024
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2024-07-10
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PII: 0876-0882-676092-SCT-3-2024, Publication Type: Journal Article
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