ChE 06-665 PROCESS SYSTEMS MODELING Spring 2017

Homework 3.5 (12 points) Process Synthesis

Due: Wednesday, 8 March 2017 by 1:30pm
No late submission without prior arrangement for exceptional circumstances.
Providetheresultsaspapercopies(thiscompletedassignment,sketch,.gmsfileandthevariablelistingof
thetwo.lstfiles).Alsouploadyour.gmsfilesusingtheS17_06_665_HW3_5_AndrewIDnaming
conventiononBlackboardincaseweneedtorunyourfile.

A company is considering to produce a chemical C which can be manufactured with

either process II or process III, both of which use as raw material chemical B. B can
be purchased from another company or else manufactured with process I which
uses A as a raw material. Given the specifications below, formulate an MILP model
and solve it with GAMS to decide:
a) Which process to build (II and III are exclusive)?
b) How to obtain chemical B (make and purchase are NOT exclusive)?
c) How much should be produced of product C?
The objective is to maximize profit.

Consider the two following cases:

1. Maximum demand of C is 10 tons/hr with a selling price of $1800/ton.

2. Maximum demand of C is 15 tons/hr; the selling price for the first 10

ton/hr is $1800/ton, and $1500/ton for the excess. Hint: Define a
continuous variable for
amount of C produced up to 10 tons/hr and a continuous variable for the
amount of C
produced in excess of 10 tons/hr. Define a binary variable to indicate
whether the
10 tons/hr threshold is exceeded (1) or not (0).

Data:
Investment and Operating Costs

Fixed ($/hr) Variable ($/ton raw mat)

Process I 1000 250

Process II 1500 400
Process III 2000 550

Prices: A: $500/ton
B: $950/ton

Conversions: Process I 90% of A to B

Process II 82% of B to C
Process III 95% of B to C
ChE 06-665 PROCESS SYSTEMS MODELING Spring 2017

Maximum supply of A: 16 tons/hr

NOTE: Scale your cost coefficients by dividing them by 100, but remember to
multiply the objective function by 100 when filling in the results table.

1. (4 pts) Sketch the process. Label your continuous and binary variables using the
conventions you adopt in GAMS. State what each binary variable =0 and =1
means.

2. (8 pts) Fill in the results from your GAMS files

Case Profit A purc B prod B purc B used B used C prod C prod
PI Supplie PII PIII >
r 10 tph 10 tph
(UOM) ($/hr) (ton/hr (ton/hr (ton/hr (ton/hr (ton/hr (ton/hr (ton/hr
) ) ) ) ) ) )
Case 1 (NA)
Case 2