Abstract
The retrofit design of a network of processes over several time periods is addressed in this paper. A strategy is proposed that consists of a high level to analyze the entire network and a low level to analyze a specific process flowsheet in detail. A methodology is presented for the high level to model process flowsheets and retrofit modifications using a multiperiod generalized disjunctive programming (GDP) model. This problem is reformulated as a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) using the convex hull formulation. Two examples that illustrate the proposed model are presented. The results show that the proposed GDP model provides a significant benefit over the existing network without retrofit and provides a clear advantage over intuitively choosing modifications based on heuristics. To illustrate the performance benefits of using the convex hull formulation, the problem is also modeled as an MILP with big-M constraints.
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