Efficient optimization-based design of distillation columns for homogenous azeotropic mixtures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 8492-8502

  Kossack, Sven ^a   Kraemer, Korbinian ^a   Marquardt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AZEOTROPES; MIXTURES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN;

AZEOTROPIC MIXTURES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; SUCCESSIVE RELAXED MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING (SR-MINLP);

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

ALGORITHMS; AZEOTROPES; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; MIXTURES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33846070148     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060117h     Document Type: Article

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