Title

Solving distillation problems by terrain methods

Authors

Angelo Lucia, University of Rhode Island
Feng Yang, University of Rhode Island

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

11-15-2004

Abstract

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. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volume

28

Issue

12

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Lucia, Angelo, and Feng Yang. "Solving distillation problems by terrain methods." Computers and Chemical Engineering 28, 12 (2004): 2541-2545. doi: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2004.06.015.