Design of cost optimal and environmentally conscious phosphoric acid production processes under uncertainty

Chemical Product and Process Modeling

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Papadopoulos, Athanasios I ^a   Seferlis, Panos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

ammonium sulfate production; optimization; phosphoric acid production; process design; simulated annealing; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACID PRODUCTION; AMMONIUM SULFATE; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; GENERIC PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; INTERCONNECTIVITY; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; PHOSPHOGYPSUM; PROCESS SCHEMES; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SYSTEMATIC METHOD; SYSTEMATIC PROCESS; UNCERTAINTY;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GYPSUM; PHOSPHORIC ACID; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

DESIGN;

EID: 74849083183     PISSN: 19342659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1934-2659.1248     Document Type: Article

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