Evolutionary design of optimum distillation column sequence

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 956-972

  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; Optimisation; Process synthesis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK CASE STUDIES; CHEMICAL PROCESS DESIGN; COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; ENCODING MECHANISM; EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; OPTIMISATIONS; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; SEARCH SPACES; TOTAL ANNUAL COSTS;

DISTILLATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 84863543629     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20589     Document Type: Article

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