Assessing optimal growth of desired species in epoxy polymerization under uncertainty

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 322-330

  Mitra, Kishalay ^a  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

Chance constrained programming; Epoxy; Fuzzy simulation; Multiobjective optimization; NSGA II; Pareto; Polymer reaction engineering; Selective species growth; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CHANCE-CONSTRAINED PROGRAMMING; EPOXY; FUZZY SIMULATION; NSGA-II; POLYMER REACTION ENGINEERING;

CARRY LOGIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MODEL BUILDINGS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PHENOLS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; SODIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77954542314     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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