Speaker: Robert Weisnamtel, University of Magdeburg
Date: Friday, March 31, 2006
Time: 1:30 to 3:00 pm
Place: 388 Posner Hall
Title: A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach for the Optimal Synthesis of Chemical Processes
Abstract:
This research is motivated by feasibility questions arising in two different areas of chemical engineering: reactive distillation processes and chromatographic processes. In both situations, there is a need to compute global bounds on the optimal value of a general polynomial mixed integer programming problem. We present our approach to tackle this question. It is based on polyhedral insights on the underlying nonlinear models and makes use of combinatorial substructures that are inherent in optimization problems of this kind.
