Enhancing sugar cane process performance through optimal production scheduling

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 198-209

  Heluane, H ^a   Colombo, M ^a   Hernandez M R ^a   Graells, M ^b   Puigjaner, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continuous process; Cyclic production and cleaning scheduling; Evaporation; Mathematical programming; Sugar manufacturing

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

CLEANING SCHEDULING; CONTINUOUS PROCESSES; CYCLIC PRODUCTION; SUGAR MANUFACTURING;

SUGAR CANE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SUGAR CANE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EVAPORATION; OPTIMIZATION; SUGAR CANE;

EID: 33845197555     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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