CHEMICAL PROCESS INTENSIFICATION DESIGN THROUGH MODELING AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

摘要

A method of chemical process intensification by designing a chemical process component through modeling using dimensionless numbers. The method comprises identifying the inter-relationship between chemical process engineering parameters and structures for subcomponents of the chemical process component, defining a weighting among a plurality of dimensionless numbers associated with a processing function of the subcomponents, simulating a chemical process for each of a plurality of combinations of subcomponent designs to determine, for each combination, a value for each of the plurality of the dimensionless numbers, determining a simulation score for each simulated chemical process based on the plurality of dimensionless numbers determined for that simulated chemical process and based on the defined weighting among the plurality of dimensionless numbers, and selecting a combination of subcomponent designs associated with an extreme simulation scores.