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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University College London
A multi-objective genetic algorithm for the design of pressure swing adsorption
The design of separation processes based on pressure swing adsorption is becoming increasingly important due to the need to retrofit CO_2 capture technologies on existing power plants. However, PSA process inherently have conflicting performance indicators: increasing the purity of the desired product will usually lead to a reduction in the recovery of this product. This paper presents a robust procedure able to identify the optimum operating conditions that achieve the best compromise between the objectives. This work underpinned the proposed work in a subsequently funded EPSRC project on integrated CO_2 capture for power plants, EP/G062129/1.