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Cálculo De Puntos Críticos Empleando Una Estrategia De Optimización Global Estocástica, Francisco Sánchez-Mares, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet
Cálculo De Puntos Críticos Empleando Una Estrategia De Optimización Global Estocástica, Francisco Sánchez-Mares, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet
Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet
The determination of critical points in multicomponent mixtures is important for both theoretical and experimental issues in the context of Chemical Engineering and related areas. In this work, we introduce a new method to perform critical point calculations which is based on the Heidemann and Khalil’s formulation and the stochastic global optimization method Simulated Annealing. Numerical performance (reliability and efficiency) of this strategy has been tested in the prediction of critical conditions of several multicomponent mixtures. Our results show that proposed method is generally robust for these calculations. However, the computational time is still significant for multicomponent systems.
Bubble And Dew Point Calculations In Multicomponent And Multireactive Mixtures, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet, Azucena Acosta-Martínez, Ulises I. Bravo-Sánchez, Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández
Bubble And Dew Point Calculations In Multicomponent And Multireactive Mixtures, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet, Azucena Acosta-Martínez, Ulises I. Bravo-Sánchez, Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández
Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet
Bubble and dew point calculations are useful in chemical engineering and play an important role in the study of separation equipments for non-reactive and reactive mixtures. To the best of the authors’s knowledge, few methods have been proposed for these calculations in systems with several chemical reactions. The objective of this paper is to introduce new conditions for performing bubble and dew point calculations in reactive mixtures. We have developed these conditions based on the application of transformed variables of Ung and Doherty (1995). Using these transformed variables, the solution space is restricted to compositions that are already at chemical …