Stochastic global optimization techniques and applications in chemical engineering

Optimization has played a key role in the design, planning and operation of chemical and related processes, for several decades. Global optimization has been receiving considerable attention in the past two decades. Of the two types of techniques for global optimization, stochastic global optimizati...

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Main Author: Rangaiah, Gade Pandu
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Hackensack, N.J World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd 2010
World Scientific
World Scientific Publishing Company
WORLD SCIENTIFIC
World Scientific Publishing
Series:Advances in process systems engineering
Subjects:
Chemical Engineering
Chemical processes
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mathematical optimization
SCIENCE
Stochastic processes
Meta-Heuristics
Swarm Intelligence Methods
Global Optimization
Stochastic Optimization Methods
Evolutionary Algorithms
Chemical Engineering
Random Search Methods
ISBN:9789814299206, 9814299200, 9789814299213, 9814299219
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Table of Contents:
  • Stochastic global optimization : techniques and applications in chemical engineering -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Formulation and Illustration of Luus-Jaakola Optimization Procedure -- Chapter 3: Adaptive Random Search and Simulated Annealing Optimizers: Algorithms and Application Issues -- Chapter 4: Genetic Algorithms in Process Engineering: Developments and Implementation Issues -- Chapter 5: Tabu Search for Global Optimization of Problems Having Continuous Variables -- Chapter 6: Differential Evolution: Method, Developments and Chemical Engineering Applications -- Chapter 7: Ant Colony Optimization: Details of Algorithms Suitable for Process Engineering -- Chapter 8: Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving NLP and MINLP in Chemical Engineering -- Chapter 9: An Introduction to the Harmony Search Algorithm -- Chapter 10: Meta-Heuristics: Evaluation and Reporting Techniques -- Chapter 11: A Hybrid Approach for Constraint Handling in MINLP Optimization using Stochastic Algorithms -- Chapter 12: Application of Luus-Jaakola Optimization Procedure to Model Reduction, Parameter Estimation and Optimal Control -- Chapter 13: Phase Stability and Equilibrium Calculations in Reactive Systems using Differential Evolution and Tabu Search -- Chapter 14: Differential Evolution with Tabu List for Global Optimization: Evaluation of Two Versions on Benchmark and Phase Stability Problems -- Chapter 15: Application of Adaptive Random Search Optimization for Solving Industrial Water Allocation Problem -- Chapter 16: Genetic Algorithms Formulation for Retrofitting Heat Exchanger Network -- Chapter 17: Ant Colony Optimization for Classification and Feature Selection -- Chapter 18: Constraint Programming and Genetic Algorithm -- Chapter 19: Schemes and Implementations of Parallel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms: Application of Tabu Search to Chemical Engineering Problems -- Index