A disjunctive programming formulation for the optimal design of biorefinery configurations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3381-3400

  Ponce Ortega, José María ^a   Pham, Viet ^b   El Halwagi, Mahmoud M ^b,c   El Baz, Amro A ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Zagazig University ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREFINERIES; DISJUNCTIVE PROGRAMMING; GIVEN CRITERION; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; SUB-PROBLEMS;

CARBOXYLATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; OPTIMIZATION; REFINING;

BIOCONVERSION;

EID: 84857892310     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie201599m     Document Type: Article

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