New approach for quantifying process feasibility: Convex and 1-D quasi-convex regions

AIChE Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1407-1417

  Ierapetritou, Marianthi G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; RATE CONSTANTS;

FEEDSTREAMS;

CHEMICAL PLANTS;

PROCESSING TECHNIQUE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; FEASIBILITY STUDY; PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 0001610858     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690470616     Document Type: Article

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