Operation of pipeless batch plants - I. MILP schedules

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 841-855

  Gonzalez, Robert ^a,b   Realff, Matthew J ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLANT LAYOUT; SCHEDULING;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PIPELESS BATCH PLANTS;

CHEMICAL PLANTS;

BATCH PROCESS; CHEMICAL PLANT; PIPE;

EID: 0032551502     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(98)00005-2     Document Type: Article

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