Modified bounded homotopies in the solving of phase stability problems for liquid-liquid phase-splitting calculations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 7003-7018

  Kangas, Jani ^a   Malinen, Ilkka ^a   Tanskanen, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTION DOMAIN; DISTANCE CRITERION; FIXED-POINT HOMOTOPY; GLOBAL MINIMA; HOMOTOPIES; HOMOTOPY PATH; INITIAL ESTIMATE; LIQUID LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM; LIQUID-LIQUIDS; PHASE SPLITTING; PHASE STABILITY ANALYSIS; PURE COMPONENTS; ROBUST ALGORITHM; STABILITY PROBLEM;

LIQUIDS;

PHASE STABILITY;

EID: 79960025055     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie101907h     Document Type: Article

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