Efficient Bayesian optimisation of industrial-scale pressure-vacuum swing adsorption processes for CO2 capture
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Author(s)
Ward, Adam
Pini, Ronny
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The design of adsorption systems for separation of CO2/N2 in carbon capture applications is notoriously challenging because it requires constrained multiobjective optimization to determine appropriate combinations of a moderately large number of system operating parameters. The status quo in the literature is to use the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) to solve the design problem. This approach requires 1000s of time-consuming process simulations to find the Pareto front of the problem, meaning it can take days of computational time to obtain a solution. As an alternative approach, we have employed a Bayesian optimization algorithm, the Thompson sampling efficient multiobjective optimization (TSEMO). For constrained productivity/energy usage optimization, we find that the TSEMO algorithm is able to find an essentially identical solution to the design problem as that found using NSGA-II, while requiring 14 times less computational time. We have used the TSEMO algorithm to design a postcombustion carbon capture system for a 1000 MW coal fired power plant using two adsorbent materials, zeolite 13X and ZIF-36-FRL. Although ZIF-36-FRL showed promising process-scale performance in previous studies, we find that the industrial-scale performance is inferior to the benchmark zeolite 13X, requiring a 21% greater cost per tonne of CO2 captured. Finally, we have also tested the performance of the Bayesian design framework when coupled with a data-driven machine learning process modeling framework. In this instance, we find that the incumbent NSGA-II offers better computational performance than the Bayesian approach by a factor of 3.
Date Issued
2022-09-14
Date Acceptance
2022-08-10
Citation
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2022, 61 (36), pp.13650-13668
ISSN
0888-5885
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
13650
End Page
13668
Journal / Book Title
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
Volume
61
Issue
36
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Chemical
Engineering
MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION
MODEL
Chemical Engineering
03 Chemical Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-08-26