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CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
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 efficien...
Angelo Lucia, Feng Yang
CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Mathematical modelling and design of an advanced once-through heat recovery steam generator
The once-through heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) design is ideally matched to very high temperature and pressure, well into the supercritical range. Moreover this type of boi...
Marie-Noëlle Dumont, Georges Heyen
CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Continuous reformulations of discrete-continuous optimization problems
This paper treats the solution of nonlinear optimization problems involving discrete decision variables, also known as generalized disjunctive programming (GDP) or mixed-integer n...
Oliver Stein, Jan Oldenburg, Wolfgang Marquardt
CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Optimization under uncertainty: state-of-the-art and opportunities
A large number of problems in production planning and scheduling, location, transportation, finance, and engineering design require that decisions be made in the presence of uncer...
Nikolaos V. Sahinidis
CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Balanced random interval arithmetic
The results of experimental testing of balanced random interval arithmetic with typical mathematical test functions and practical problem are presented and discussed. The possibili...
Julius Zilinskas, Ian David Lockhart Bogle
CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A general modeling framework for the operational planning of petroleum supply chains
In the literature, optimization models deal with planning and scheduling of several subsystems of the petroleum supply chain such as oilfield infrastructure, crude oil supply, ref...
Sérgio M. S. Neiro, José M. Pinto
CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Towards integrated information models for data and documents
Numerous approaches to information modeling exist within chemical engineering representing product data, work processes, or other information. These models have a limited scope an...
Birgit Bayer, Wolfgang Marquardt
CCE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Part II. Future perspective on optimization
Following from part I, which presents a retrospective on optimization, we focus here on areas that are recent active research topics and are likely to strongly influence the futur...
Ignacio E. Grossmann, Lorenz T. Biegler