An Efficient Initialization Procedure for Simulation and Optimization of Large Distillation Problems

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4291-4298

  Rabeau, Pierre ^a   Gani, Rafiqul ^b   Leibovici, Claude ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION COLUMNS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM DISTILLATES;

INITIALIZATION;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 0031254308     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie970270z     Document Type: Article

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