Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.50, No.7, 3738-3753, 2011
Global Optimization of Water Management Problems Using Linear Relaxation and Bound Contraction Methods
In this paper, we present results of a recently developed global optimization method(1) as applied to water management problems. Our method deals effectively with MINLP problems with bilinear and univariate concave terms. Bilinear terms show up in these problems as products of flow rates and concentrations in component balances. In turn, concave terms are typically associated with equipment costs.