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Integrating Bioprocesses Into Industrial Complexes For Sustainable Development, Debalina Sengupta
Integrating Bioprocesses Into Industrial Complexes For Sustainable Development, Debalina Sengupta
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The objective of this research is to propose, develop and demonstrate a methodology for the optimal integration of bioprocesses in an existing chemical production complex. Chemical complex optimization is determining the optimal configuration of chemical plants in a superstructure of possible plants based on economic, environmental and sustainable criteria objective function (triple bottomline) and solves a mixed integer non linear programming problem. This research demonstrated the transition of production of chemicals from non-renewable to renewable feedstock. A conceptual design of biochemical processes was converted to five industrial scale designs in Aspen HYSYS® process simulator. Fourteen input-output block models were created …