ON A SYSTEMATIC DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR SINGLE COMPONENT WATER UTILIZATION SYSTEMS IN PROCESS PLANTS

Abstract

This paper presents a robust methodology to obtain an optimal design of the single component water/wastewater allocation problem in process plants. The method uses a concentration grid water allocation procedure to obtain preliminary optimal structures. A merging procedure provides the final structures. The use of different water allocation strategies shows that the problem has several alternative solutions.

Keywords:

• Water management
• Wastewater reuse

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MARIANO J. SAVELSKI

Present address: Rowan University, Chemical Engineering, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028. Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone], e-mail: [email protected]