The inside-out approach to refinery-wide optimization

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4645-4653

  Slaback, Dale D ^a,b   Riggs, James B ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGED SOLUTION; MODEL EQUATIONS; REFINERY MODEL;

COMPUTATION THEORY; EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 34447523999     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0608814     Document Type: Article

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