Numerical Study to Define Initial Thermal Integration Window for Methane Oxidative Coupling with Dehydroaromatization Reactors

Table 4

A step-by-step chart of how the reactor coupling methodology works with help of Table 3.

(I) Setting up the methodology framework	(II) Define reactor optimizer and variable ranking	(III) Conduct the optimization
(1) Define the input and output parameters of the study	(1) Select which reactor will be used as an optimizer and which reactor as a reference or target	(1) Define the objective function
(2) Select initial conditions and constraints and add them in the input layer	(2) Rank the input variables based on which one to change first	(2) Select single or multivariable-at-a-time optimization
(3) Select targets and add them in the output layer		(3) Carry out the optimization manually or using an automated algorithm
(4) Use the reactor model to calculate initial values for the initial output parameters