APPLICATION OF GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF SEPARATOR PRESSURES IN MULTISTAGE PRODUCTION UNITS

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 201, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 926-938

  Ghaedi, Mojtaba ^a   Ebrahimi, Ali Nejad ^b   Pishvaie, Mahmoud Reza ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Gas condensate; Genetic algorithm; Multistage separation; Optimization

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; GAS CONDENSATES; OPTIMIZATION; SEPARATORS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

API GRAVITIES; CONDENSATE PRODUCTION; MULTI-STAGE PRODUCTIONS; MULTI-STAGE SEPARATION; OIL AND GAS; OIL SEPARATORS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84897083418     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: 15635201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2013.793676     Document Type: Article

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