Multi-objective Optimization of Preparation Conditions of Asymmetric Polyetherimide Membrane for Prevaporation of Isopropanol
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Seyed Reza Nabavi
Abstract
Multi-objective optimization is used in many chemical engineering fields that have conflict objective functions. Prevaporation is an effective process for removing trace or minor amount of the component of diluting solutions. This process is used for dehydration of alcohols containing small amounts of water. In this process membrane flux and separation factor have conflict with each other. So a multi-objective optimization approach can be used for optimization of the process. In this paper, in first stage a neural network based model was developed for preparation conditions for polyetherimide membrane in isopropanol prevaporation. Four major variables involved in the membrane preparation procedure, including polymer concentration, additive content, solvent evaporation temperature and time was considered. Membrane flux and separation factor were considered as objective functions. Elitist Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm with jumping gene and altruistic adaptation (Alt-NSGA-aJG) was applied for simultaneous maximization of flux and separation factor. Pareto optimal solutions for membrane preparation conditions and effect of decision variables (four preparation variables) on Pareto front were investigated.
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- Investigation of Palladium Membrane Reactor Performance during Ethanol Steam Reforming using CFD Method
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Note
- Editorial Special Issue: Selected Extended Papers from the 12th International Conference on Membrane Science and Technology (MST2015) Symposium on Modeling and Simulation
- Research Articles
- Molecular Perspective of Radionuclides Separation by Nanoporous Graphene Oxide Membrane
- Mathematical Modeling and Investigation on the Temperature and Pressure Dependency of Permeation and Membrane Separation Performance for Natural gas Treatment
- Mathematical Modeling of Natural Gas Separation Using Hollow Fiber Membrane Modules by Application of Finite Element Method through Statistical Analysis
- Modelling Study of Palladium Membrane Reactor Performance during Methan Steam Reforming using CFD Method
- Performance Investigation of Membrane Process in Natural Gas sweeting by Membrane Process: Modeling Study
- Gas Separation in Nanoporous Graphene from Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- The Effect of Module Geometry on Heat and Mass Transfer in Membrane Distillation
- Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation of the Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) Process
- Multi-objective Optimization of Preparation Conditions of Asymmetric Polyetherimide Membrane for Prevaporation of Isopropanol
- Investigation of Palladium Membrane Reactor Performance during Ethanol Steam Reforming using CFD Method
- Designing Better Membrane Modules Using CFD
- Simulation of Membrane Gas Separation Process Using Aspen Plus® V8.6
- Numerical Simulation of Salt Water Passing Mechanism Through Nanoporous Single-Layer Graphene Membrane
- Facilitated Transport of Propylene Through Composite Polymer-Ionic Liquid Membranes. Mass Transfer Analysis
- CFD Simulation of Hydrogen Separation in Pd Hollow Fiber Membrane
- Numerical Study on Concentration Polarization for H2-N2 Separation through a Thin Pd Membrane by Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
