Conceptual design based on superstructure optimization in GAMS with accurate thermodynamic models

First published in
Computer aided chemical engineering  
Number in series
48
Start Page
15
End Page
20
Citation
Computer Aided Chemical Engineering 48: 15-20 (2020)
Contribution to Conference
30th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE 2020  
Publisher DOI
10.1016/B978-0-12-823377-1.50146-4
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85092657142
Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
978-0-12-823377-1
Conceptual design based on superstructure optimization is a complex task that neither commercial simulators nor dedicated modeling and optimization environments like GAMS, AMPL, and AIMMS are able to perform well by themselves: the first lack interfaces to state-of-the-art solvers, the latter do not provide accurate thermodynamic models. While previous research shows that GAMS can be interfaced with an external thermo engine, this interfacing requires additional C ++ code, whose manual generation and consistent implementation is tedious, making the approach both error prone and impractical for larger design problems. By using MOSAICmodeling as a modeling environment, this shortcoming of the existing approach is eliminated by automatically generating all code needed for interfacing GAMS with an external CAPE-OPEN thermodynamic property package.
Subjects
automated code generation
CAPE-OPEN
conceptual design
DDC Class
500: Science