Performance, Costs, and Optimization

Performance and economic criteria - such as yield, productivity, or total cost - are indicators of efficiency and quality of preparative chromatographic separations. These authors have contributed to the first edition. 

They depend on the operating and design parameters of a plant. Hereby, they are potential variables for any optimization problem and the basis for the formulation of objective functions. The definitions of objective functions are often identical for diverse chromatographic processes (e.g., batch or SMB), but different operating and design parameters must be applied for their calculation. 

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