Bilevel optimization formulation for parameter estimation in liquid-liquid phase equilibrium problems

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 548-559

  Mitsos, Alexander ^a   Bollas, George M ^b   Barton, Paul I ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilevel; Gibbs free energy minimization; Gibbs tangent plane; NRTL model; Phase diagrams; SIP

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; COLLOIDS; FREE ENERGY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL ANALYSIS; MIXTURES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; RANDOM ERRORS;

BILEVEL; GIBBS FREE ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GIBBS TANGENT PLANE; NRTL MODEL; SIP;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 58149279433     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.09.034     Document Type: Article

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