Sensitivity analysis, economic optimization, and configuration design of mixed refrigerant cycles by NLP techniques

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue , 2015, Pages 144-155

  Amidpour, M ^a   Hamedi, M H ^a   Mafi, M ^b   Ghorbani, B ^a   Shirmohammadi, R ^c   Salimi, M ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b IMAM KHOMEINI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Economic optimization; Non linear programming; Refrigeration system; Sensitivity analysis; Thermal integration

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ETHYLENE; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; REFRIGERANTS; REFRIGERATION;

CONFIGURATION DESIGNS; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES; MIXED REFRIGERANT CYCLES; PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX; REFRIGERATION CYCLES; REFRIGERATION SYSTEM; THERMAL INTEGRATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84925445814     PISSN: 18755100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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