A construction-based approach to process plant layout using mixed-integer optimization

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 351-358

  Xu, Gang ^a   Papageorgiou, Lazaros G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT LAYOUT;

MIXED INTEGER OPTIMIZATION; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING (MILP);

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 33847066677     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060843k     Document Type: Article

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