INTERVAL PROGRAMMING: A NEW APPROACH TO LINEAR PROGRAMMING WITH APPLICATIONS TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROBLEMS.

Abstract

Chemical engineering problems of blending, mixing, furnace loading, etc., frequently have the form maximize c(t)x subject to b(-) < or = A x < or = b(+) where the matrix A, vectors b(-), b(+), c are given. We denote by interval programming, abbreviated IP, the theory, computations and applications of problems of this form. The purpose of this paper is to present a finite iterative method for solving IP called SUBOPT (abbreviation of suboptimization method) and to demonstrate its effectiveness on a cupola charging problem, a representative of interval programming problems in chemical engineering. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0676519

Entities

People

  • Adi Ben-israel
  • Phillip D. Robers

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blending
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Engineering
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Intervals
  • Linear Programming
  • Mixing
  • Systems Science

Readers

  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design