Multiobjective optimization under uncertainty of the economic and life-cycle environmental performance of industrial processes

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2098-2121

  Sabio, Nagore ^a   Pozo, Carlos ^a   Guillén Gosálbez, Gonzalo ^a   Jiménez, Laureano ^a   Karuppiah, Ramkumar ^b   Vasudevan, Venkatesh ^b   Sawaya, Nicolas ^b   Farrell, John T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Life cycle assessment; Multiobjective optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY; SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS; UNCERTAINTY;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84899965706     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14385     Document Type: Article

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