Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering (IJChE)
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Optimization of Hydrogen Distribution Network by Imperialist Competitive AlgorithmIn

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Authors

M Omidifar 1
S Shafiei 1
H Soltani 2

1 Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology

2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran

Abstract
In modern refineries, hydrogen is widely used for the production of clean fuels. In this paper, a new method is presented in order to use hydrogen more effectively in refineries. This new method is based on combination of linear programming with imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) in order to optimize the hydrogen distribution network. In this new approach, optimization is performed in two levels. In one level the hydrogen network layout is proposed by ICA and in the other level the total annual cost and utility are optimized by the linear programming. Thus, the minimum cost and the optimal configuration of the hydrogen distribution network are obtained. Finally, to illustrate the application of this method two cases are studied.

Keywords

Linear Programming
Optimization
Hydrogen Distribution
Network
Clean Fuel
Imperialist Competitive
Algorithm

Subjects

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Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering (IJChE)
Volume 13, Issue 3
Summer 2016
Pages 63-77

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