Sensitivity analyses for scenario reduction in flexible flow sheet design with a large number of uncertain parameters

AIChE Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2862-2871

  Pintarič, Zorka Novak ^a   Kasaš, Mihael ^a   Kravanja, Zdravko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Reduced deterministic equivalent; Sensitivity analysis; Two stage stochastic

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY; DETERMINISTIC EQUIVALENTS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; SCENARIO REDUCTIONS; STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATIONS; TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC; TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMS; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880582251     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14061     Document Type: Article

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