Solving distillation problems by terrain methods

This paper clearly shows that the recently proposed terrain methodology of Lucia and Yang (2003) can be used to solve steady-state distillation problems in a reliable and efficient manner. Numerical results are presented that show that terrain methods are superior to Newton's method and homotopy-continuation for distillation examples with multiple solutions.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: CCE
• Authors: Angelo Lucia, Feng Yang
• Keywords: CCE 2004, CCE 2007, Steady-state Distillation Problems, Terrain Methodology, Terrain Methods