A LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO THE CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEM

Abstract

The well known chemical equilibrium problem is expressed in the form of minimizing the free energy of a mixture in order to compute the chemical composition at equilibrium. By piece-wise linear approximations to the free energy function, the problem becomes a linear program which can be solved by a standard code on a computing machine. Successive approximations give any degree of accuracy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 21, 1958
Accession Number
AD0606363

Entities

People

  • George Bernard Dantzig
  • Selmer Johnson
  • Wayne White

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Chemical Composition
  • Chemical Equilibrium
  • Complex Mixtures
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Free Energy
  • Grids
  • Hard Copy
  • Linear Programming
  • Simplex Method
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)