Table 16.
Optimized values for decision variables and objective function.
| Parameters | Case base |
Multi-objective Optimization |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Units | Value | A | B | C | D | E | |
| Pump efficiency, | % | 75 | 75 | 74 | 79 | 79 | 78 |
| Turbine efficiency, | % | 80 | 84 | 85 | 85 | 85 | 85 |
| Evaporator pinch, | °C | 30 | 30.21 | 30.05 | 30.01 | 33.84 | 30.27 |
| Condensing temperature, | °C | 40 | 41.00 | 41.00 | 40.99 | 40.99 | 41.00 |
| Condenser pinch, | °C | 15 | 5.02 | 5.04 | 5.02 | 5.01 | 5.01 |
| Emergy Sustainability Index, | % | - | 4.80 | 3.97 | 1.61 | 3.93 | 4.32 |
| Exergetic efficiency, | - | - | 44.18 | 47.49 | 68.97 | 70.06 | 72.97 |
A = toluene; B = cyclohexane; C = cyclohexane/R11 (0.2/0.8); D = cyclohexane/R11 (0.25/0.75); E = cyclohexane/R11 (0.30/0.70).