Automatic design of conventional distillation column sequence by genetic algorithm

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 477-492

  Boozarjomehry, Ramin Bozorgmehry ^a   Laleh, Ali Pourahmadi ^a   Svrcek, William Y ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distillation column sequence; Genetic algorithms; Optimization; Process synthesis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DESIGN; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; CHEMICAL PROCESS DESIGN; EXISTING METHOD; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; SEARCH SPACES; TOTAL ANNUAL COSTS;

DISTILLATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 67149119154     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20175     Document Type: Article

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