Flexibility analysis leads to a sizing strategy in distillation columns

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL.1, 1996, Pages

  Hoch, Patricia M ^a   Eliceche, Ana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Design; Distillation column; Flexibility; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS; FLEXIBILITY;

EID: 0029657122     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-1354(96)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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