INDEX software, optimization

For more the details about the MPC CB software and the operations conditions, the reader can refer to [12]. The optimal minimization of the drying time rmder constraints may be equivalent to define the performance index as the maximization of the velocity of the sublimation interface. Since MPC CB solves a rninirnization problem, the objective function is ... 

NEOS Guide to Optimization Software, http //www.fp.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/Software Guide/index.html. 

Zhao et al. describe the concepts and mathematical foundations for PARIS II software that designs solvent mixtures based on optimal solvent properties. The solvent property categories include performance requirements and environmental requirements (a VOC index and an environmental impacts index), and are based on general, dynamic, and equilibrium properties. The chapter by Nelson contains... 

Pro ezGC, All, Inc., Dayton, OH available from lab supply houses. Software for optimizing separations by capillary GC contains retention index diabase for 3000 compounds. See review Anal. Chem. 67, 476A (1995). 

D. Tobi and R. Fiber, PROTEINS Structure, Function, and Genetics, 41, 40 (2000). Distance-Dependent, Pair Potential for Protein Folding Results From Linear Optimization. Available http //cbsu.tc.cornell.edu/software/loopp/index.htm and http //ser-loopp.tc. cornell.edu/cbsu/loopp.htm. 

Extensive work has been done to build models around standard process data as well as other types of online data such as online melt flow index, bulk viscosity, and so on the primary goal of these is to attempt to infer polymer properties to enable better process control [22-26]. Generally, much of the model building work is done off-line to determine optimal operating poUdes and optimal process variable trajectories that define end-product quality and reaction yield. Several types of advanced software have also been developed toward this goal [27,28]. There is more discussion of process control theory and application in other chapters of this book, especially Chapters 16-18. 

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