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Optimization of industrial vegetable oil hydrogenators
Author(s) -
Moharir A. S.,
Bhatia S.,
Saraf D. N.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02666580
Subject(s) - process engineering , product (mathematics) , vegetable oil , simple (philosophy) , computer science , environmental science , engineering , mathematics , chemistry , organic chemistry , philosophy , geometry , epistemology
A method to optimize the operation of industrial vegetable oil hydrogenators is proposed. The hydrogenation data from an operating plant are used to fit a simple mathematical model which is then used to select values for temperature and hydrogen pressure such that a desired product is obtained in minimum hydrogenation time, Methodology is suggested whereby any nonoptimal operation can be changed to optimal operation in a few trials.