The use of olefin oligomerization in the synthesis of liquid fuel has broad application prospects in military and civil fields. Here, based on finite time thermodynamics (FTT), an ethylene oligomerization chemical process (EOCP) model with a constant temperature heat source outside the heat exchanger and reactor pipes was established. The process was first optimized with the minimum specific entropy generation rate (SEGR) as the optimization objective, then multi-objective optimization was further performed by utilizing the NSGA-Ⅱ algorithm with the minimization of the entropy generation rate (EGR) and the maximization of the C10H20 yield as the optimization objectives. The results showed that the point of the minimum EGR was the same as that of SEGR in the Pareto optimal frontier. The solution obtained using the Shannon entropy decision method had the lowest deviation index, the C10H20 yield was reduced by 49.46% compared with the point of reference and the EGR and SEGR were reduced by 59.01% and 18.88%, respectively.
The short-chain hydrocarbon polymerization-catalyzed synthetic fuel technology has great development potential in the fields of energy storage and renewable energy. Modeling and optimization of a short-chain hydrocarbon polymerization-catalyzed synthetic fuel process involving mixers, compressors, heat exchangers, reactors, and separators are performed through finite-time thermodynamics. Under the given conditions of the heat source temperature of the heat exchanger and the reactor, the optimal performance of the process is solved by taking the mole fraction of components, pressure, and molar flow as the optimization variables, and taking the minimum entropy generation rate (MEGR) of the process as the optimization objective. The results show that the entropy generation rate of the optimized reaction process is reduced by 48.81% compared to the reference process; among them, the component mole fraction is the most obvious optimization variable. The research results have certain theoretical guiding significance for the selection of the operation parameters of the short-chain hydrocarbon polymerization-catalyzed synthetic fuel process.
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