Arrangement of process equipment modules with consideration of plant safety

Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 896-901

  Fuchino, Tetsuo ^a   Itoh, Taku ^a   Muraki, Masaaki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrangement; Evolutionary Method; Layout Design; Safety; Systems Engineering

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EQUIPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT LAYOUT;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031250328     PISSN: 00219592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1252/jcej.30.896     Document Type: Article

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