TY  - JOUR
EP  - 231
SN  - 10226680
PB  - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
N1  - cited By 0; Conference of International Conference on Process Engineering and Advanced Materials, ICPEAM 2012 ; Conference Date: 12 June 2012 Through 14 June 2012; Conference Code:106208
TI  - A taguchi-SQP approach for minimizing energy per unit diesel production at crude distillation unit
SP  - 220
AV  - none
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904052343&doi=10.4028%2fwww.scientific.net%2fAMR.917.220&partnerID=40&md5=a0d9568b6ad139fd9260751500cea25c
JF  - Advanced Materials Research
A1  - Zainal-Abidin, M.
A1  - Yusoff, N.
A1  - Mohd-Siraj, K.
VL  - 917
Y1  - 2014///
N2  - Crude distillation unit (CDU) is one of the largest energy consumer units in a refinery. It consumes around 35-40 of the total process energy in refinery. This paper presents a systematic approach for selecting optimization variables using Taguchi method. These variables are subsequently employed in minimizing energy consumption per unit diesel production at CDU. A steady state model of the CDU was developed under the HYSYS 7.2 environment and utilized to demonstrate the efficacy of this method. Optimum energy consumption per unit diesel production obtained from Taguchi were validated by comparing the results with those obtained from HYSYS built-in SQP solver. The results reveal that the combination of Taguchi and SQP solver can reduce CPU time for optimization purposes. © (2014) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
KW  - Energy utilization; Optimization; Process engineering; Refining; Taguchi methods
KW  -  CDU; Crude distillation units; Diesel production; HYSYS; Minimizing energy; Optimization variables; SQP; Steady-state modeling
KW  -  Distillation equipment
ID  - scholars5171
CY  - Kuala Lumpur
ER  -