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CCE
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Separation of butanol from acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation by a hybrid extraction-distillation process
The alternative fuel butanol can be produced via acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation from renewable resources, i.e. biomass. Expensive feedstocks and the high costs for the...
Korbinian Kraemer, Andreas Harwardt, Rob Bronneber...
CCE
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Time representations and mathematical models for process scheduling problems
During the last 15 years, many mathematical models have been developed in order to solve process operation scheduling problems, using discrete or continuous time representations. ...
Sylvain Mouret, Ignacio E. Grossmann, Pierre Pesti...
CCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A new homotopy for seeking all real roots of a nonlinear equation
Saeed Khaleghi Rahimian, Farhang Jalali, J. D. Sea...
CCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Computational energy-based redesign of robust proteins
The robustness of a system is a property that pervades all aspects of Nature. The ability of a system to adapt itself to perturbations due to internal and external agents, to agin...
Giovanni Stracquadanio, Giuseppe Nicosia
CCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Development and validation of a dynamic model for regeneration of passivating baths using membrane contactors
Selective liquid membranes have been traditionally employed for liquid/liquid and gas/liquid mass transfer in a wide range of applications. In particular, the Emulsion Pertraction...
Eugenio Bringas, Rosa Mediavilla, Ana María...
CCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Cell-based dynamic heat exchanger models - Direct determination of the cell number and size
Large amounts of thermal energy are transferred to for heating or cooling in the industry as well as in the other sectors. Typical examples are crude oil preheating, ethylene plan...
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Jirí Jaromír K...
CCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Optimization-based design of reactive distillation columns using a memetic algorithm
This contribution deals with the optimization of the design of reactive distillation columns by using a memetic algorithm (MA) which is a combination of an evolution strategy (ES)...
Maren Urselmann, S. Barkmann, Guido Sand, Sebastia...
CCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Process intensification in duplex pressure swing adsorption
As an alternative to the pressure swing adsorption (PSA) based on the Skarstrom cycle or its variants, a novel two-bed PSA--called duplex PSA--has been proposed by Hirose and inde...
R. S. Thakur, Nitin Kaistha, D. P. Rao