Title: An intelligent system for green process design

Authors: Iskandar Halim, Rajagopalan Srinivasan

Addresses: Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore 627833, Singapore. ' Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore 627833, Singapore; National University of Singapore 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore

Abstract: Growing environmental issues have motivated technological advances to reduce pollution from chemical processing plants. These include the use of process simulators to design an environmentally benign process that minimises the plant emissions. While these simulators offer a convenient way of simulating the plant|s capability to support environmental studies. In this article, we present a novel framework that integrates expert system with process simulator and mathematical optimisation as a means for waste minimisation analysis and decision support. We illustrate the framework by solving a literature case study involving hydrocarbon separation process.

Keywords: expert systems; multi-objective decision making; process synthesis; simulated annealing; waste minimisation; intelligent design; green design; process design; mathematical optimisation; process simulation; hydrocarbon separation; chemical processing; environmental pollution.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESD.2009.023708

International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2009 Vol.8 No.1, pp.1 - 9

Published online: 08 Mar 2009 *

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