Abstract
The production of sulfuric acid is an important process because of its many applications and its use as a mitigation strategy for SO2. Sulfuric acid plant reactors have been the focus of many studies, and thus there has been very limited work in the literature that has analyzed complete sulfuric acid plants. In this work, the flowsheet for an industrial-scale sulfuric acid plant with scrubbing tower is presented. The model was developed in Aspen Plus V8.8, and it was validated using historical data from an actual industrial plant. A sensitivity analysis was carried out followed by optimization using two alternative objective functions: maximization of plant profitability or productivity. The optimization was extended to consider uncertainty in key operating and economic parameters. The results show that changes could be made in the current optimal operating condition of the plant to improve the annual profit of the process.
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