Economic Evaluation for the Retrofit of Chemical Processes through Waste Minimization and Process Integration

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4566-4578

  Dantus, Mauricio M ^a   High, Karen A ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLOWCHARTING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; RETROFITTING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTE UTILIZATION;

MIXED INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING (MINLP); NET PRESENT VALUE METHOD; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ASPEN PLUS; WASTE MINIMIZATION;

CHEMICAL OPERATIONS;

EID: 0030395936     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9507787     Document Type: Article

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