Designing environmentally safe refrigerants using mathematical programming

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 3727-3739

  Duvedi, Amit P ^a   Achenie, Luke E K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER AIDED MOLECULAR DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; MIXED INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAM (MINLP);

REFRIGERANTS;

EID: 0030210520     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00224-2     Document Type: Article

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