Publication Year
2011
Abstract
Concentrators are used in the industrial world to remove water from a chemical or substance by heating the liquid until the water evaporates thereby concentrating the remaining substance. The goal of this project is to find the optimum cycle time, number of cycles per year, and the heating element area that would minimize the total annual cost and hours of operation of an industrial concentrator. It was found that the specified concentrator would achieve a minimum total cost of $48,720.50 per year and take 993.8 hours to meet the production goal of evaporating one million kilograms of water.
Recommended Citation
Stine, Katrina
(2011)
"Optimal Operation of a Concentrator,"
Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two:
Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2326-3652.4.1.7
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/vol4/iss1/7
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Advisors:
Brian Curtin, Mathematics and Statistics
Scott Campbell, Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
Kingsley Reeves, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Henrick Jeanty, Computer Science and Engineering
Problem Suggested By:
Scott Campbell
