Abstract
Iterative dynamic programming (IDP) according to Luus was used for the optimization of the methanol production in a cascade of spherical reactors. The system of three spherical reactors was compared to an externally cooled tubular reactor and a quench reactor. The reactors were modeled by the pseudohomogeneous and heterogeneous approach. The effectiveness factors of the heterogeneous model were calculated by the dusty gas model. The IDP method was compared with sequential quadratic programming (SQP) and the Box complex method. The optimized distributions of catalyst volume with the pseudohomogeneous and heterogeneous model lead to different results. The IDP method finds the global optimum with high probability. A combination of IDP and SQP provides a reliable optimization procedure that needs minimum computing time.
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