Design process excellence is considered a major differentiating factor between competing enterprises since it determines the constraints within which plant operation and supply ch...
The potential benefits of applying reactive distillation (RD) processes are taxed by significant complexities in process development and design. The design problem is formulated i...
C. P. Almeida-Rivera, P. L. J. Swinkels, J. Grievi...
: 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...
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 ...
Arvind U. Raghunathan, M. Soledad Diaz, Lorenz T. ...
: 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...