A general mathematical programming approach for process plant layout

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 823-840

  Georgiadis, Michael C ^a,b   Schilling, Gordian ^a,c   Rotstein, Guillermo E ^a,d   MacChietto, Sandro ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

^d 15 Babington Road ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Mathematical programming; Optimisation; Plant layout

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COSTS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPING SYSTEMS; PLANT LAYOUT; RETROFITTING;

MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION;

CHEMICAL PLANTS;

LAYOUT; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; PROCESS PLANT;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST CONTROL; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROCESS CONTROL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033168821     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(99)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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