Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.33, No.2, 440-443, 1994
Combinatorics of Sharp Separation Systems Synthesis - Generating-Functions and Search Efficiency Criterion
This paper gives a generating function of the total number of possible separation sequences when only sharp separators with two or three outputs-are used and a generating function of the number of distinct complex separators. These results allow us to define an efficiency criterion for the solution of the optimal separation schemes synthesis problem.