CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Batch time requirements are provided for the separation of ternary heterogeneous azeotropic mixtures into three pure products in closed batch column configurations. The separation...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
This work focuses on the basic stochastic decomposition (SD) algorithm of Higle and Sen [J.L. Higle, S. Sen, Stochastic Decomposition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996] for two-st...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
: This paper describes the implementation of a meta-heuristic optimization approach, Tabu Search (TS), for Heat Exchanger Networks (HEN) synthesis and compares this approach to oth...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Multiproduct pipelines permit to transport large volumes of a wide range of refined petroleum products from major supply sources to distribution centers near market areas. Batches...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
We consider the dynamic optimization of chemical processes with changes in the number of equilibrium phases. Recent work has shown that transitions in the number of phases can be ...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
This paper presents a sequential two-stage strategy for the stochastic synthesis of chemical processes in which flexibility and ability to adjust manipulated variables are taken i...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Ever-changing production campaigns complicate the management of recovery and treatment options for unavoidable effluents at pharmaceutical plants. Each campaign produces large amo...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
This paper describes an optimization procedure for the synthesis of complex distillation configurations. A superstructure based on the Reversible Distillation Sequence Model (RDSM...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
: This paper presents a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, Tabu Search (TS), and describes how it can be used to solve a wide variety of chemical engineering problems. Modifica...