Abstract: In a general way, chemical engineering system design synthesis via algorithmic methods can be formulated as a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problem. This work involves developing a general MINLP algorithm for solving the above mentioned problem. The introduced notions of decomposition, projection etc. make it easy to implement this solution procedure. The performance of the proposed algorithm is illustrated with numerical problems. The proposed algorithm is shown to be a promising alternative for solving system design problems.

摘要： 化学工程系统最优化设计问题一般可被直接描述为混合整数非线性规划问题.本文着重导出一个求解上述问题的混合整数非线性规划方法.推导中,分解、投影等概念的引入使此方法易于实施.本文举例对算法进行了验证,并表明此方法是适于化学工程系统最优化设计的有效工具.