Efficient solution approaches for the multifloor process plant layout problem

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 811-824

  Patsiatzis, Dimitrios I ^a   Papageorgiou, Lazaros G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTIFLOOR PROCESS;

PLANT LAYOUT;

LAYOUT; PROCESS PLANT;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DECOMPOSITION; EQUIPMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS MODEL;

EID: 0037453789     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020586t     Document Type: Article

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