Layout aspects of pipeless batch plants

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5672-5679

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PLANT LAYOUT; SCHEDULING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MOBILE VESSELS; PIPELESS PLANTS; TIME-DOMAIN REPRESENTATION; TRANSFERRING MATERIALS;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

BATCH PROCESS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 22944457196     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie040233p     Document Type: Article

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