Process plant layout using an improvement-type algorithm

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 780-788

  Xu, Gang ^a   Papageorgiou, Lazaros G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iterative solution approach; Mixed integer optimisation; Process plant layout

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; ITERATIVE IMPROVEMENTS; ITERATIVE SOLUTION APPROACH; LAYOUT PROBLEMS; MIXED INTEGER; MIXED INTEGER OPTIMISATION; OPTIMISATION; PROCESS PLANT LAYOUT; PROCESS PLANTS; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; SOLUTION APPROACH;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 65649134298     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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