Optimal design of complex distillation columns using rigorous tray-by-tray disjunctive programming models

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 4326-4335

  Yeomans, Hector ^a   Grossmann, Ignacio E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AZEOTROPES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SEPARATION; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM; GENERALIZED DISJUNCTIVE PROGRAMMING MODELS; SUPERSTRUCTURES; TRAY;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034332856     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0001974     Document Type: Article

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