Numerical optimization is very useful for design and operation of energy processes. As the design has a major impact on the economics of the system, it is desirable to find a global optimum in the presence of local optima. So far, deterministic …
Deterministic global optimization of process flowsheets has so far mostly been limited to simplified thermodynamic models. Herein, we demonstrate a way to integrate accurate thermodynamic models for the optimal process design of an organic Rankine …
Global deterministic process optimization problems have recently been solved efficiently in a reduced-space by automatic propagation of McCormick relaxations (Bongartz and Mitsos, J. Global Optim, 2017). However, the previous optimizations have been …