Short-cut statistical models for estimating the consumption of energy utilities in chemical batch plants

摘要

The minimization of energy consumption in the chemical industry is one of the key principles of green chemistry. This has led to the development of evaluation tools, which include energy use as a metric, not only in academia but also in the industry. The use of these evaluation tools requires process specific data of energy consumption, which is usually scarce particularly in multiproduct and multipurpose batch plants.