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Gas‐separation membrane cascades utilizing limited numbers of compressors
Author(s) -
Agrawal Rakesh,
Xu Jianguo
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690420806
Subject(s) - cascade , gas compressor , membrane , separation (statistics) , control theory (sociology) , chemistry , engineering , computer science , process engineering , chromatography , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , machine learning , biochemistry , control (management)
A systematic procedure is presented to drawn n‐compressor membrane cascades for gas‐separation applications with n ≥ 1. In this method, a parent cascade structure is created that contains the n‐compressor cascades as substructures. These substructures are then revealed by systematically eliminating unwanted membrane stages and recycle compressors from the parent cascade. The procedure is illustrated by generating arrays of one‐ and two‐compressor cascade schemes. It is found that these arrays contain the cascade schemes known from the literature and also lead to some new schemes. This procedure increases the likelihood of finding an economically viable membrane cascade for a given separation application.