Stochastic Global Optimization : Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering

by Rangaiah, Gade Pandu

• ISBN13: 9789814299206
• ISBN10: 9814299200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

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 optimization is applicable to any type of problems having non-differentiable functions, discrete variables and/or continuous variables. It, thus, shows significant promise and potential for process optimization. So far, there are no books focusing on stochastic global optimization and its applications in chemical engineering. Stochastic Global Optimization — a monograph with contributions by leading researchers in the area — bridges the gap in this subject, with the aim of highlighting and popularizing stochastic global optimization techniques for chemical engineering applications. The book, with 19 chapters in all, is broadly categorized into two sections that extensively cover the techniques and the chemical engineering applications.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Formulation and Illustration of Luus-Jaakola Optimization Procedure	p. 17
Adaptive Random Search and Simulated Annealing Optimizers: Algorithms and Application Issues	p. 57
Genetic Algorithms in Process Engineering: Developments and Implementation Issues	p. 111
Tabu Search for Global Optimization of Problems Having Continuous Variables	p. 147
Differential Evolution: Method, Developments and Chemical Engineering Applications	p. 203
Ant Colony Optimization: Details of Algorithms Suitable for Process Engineering	p. 237
Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving NLP and MINLP in Chemical Engineering	p. 271
An Introduction to the Harmony Search Algorithm	p. 301
Meta-Heuristics: Evaluation and Reporting Techniques	p. 337
A Hybrid Approach for Constraint Handling in MINLP Optimization using Stochastic Algorithms	p. 353
Application of Luus-Jaakola Optimization Procedure to Model Reduction, Parameter Estimation and Optimal Control	p. 375
Phase Stability and Equilibrium Calculations in Reactive Systems using Differential Evolution and Tabu Search	p. 413
Differential Evolution with Tabu List for Global Optimization: Evaluation of Two Versions on Benchmark and Phase Stability Problems	p. 465
Application of Adaptive Random Search Optimization for Solving Industrial Water Allocation Problem	p. 505
Genetic Algorithms Formulation for Retrofitting Heat Exchanger Network	p. 545
Ant Colony Optimization for Classification and Feature Selection	p. 591
Constraint Programming and Genetic Algorithm	p. 619
Schemes and Implementations of Parallel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms: Application of Tabu Search to Chemical Engineering Problems	p. 677
Index	p. 705
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