Optimization of Chemical Processes detailed syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Chemical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to CE Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of optimization of chemical processes is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
LINEAR PROGRAMMING 9
Review on basic concepts of LP formulations; Simplex methods; Big-M method, two phase method and Duality in linear programming.
Unit III
NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING 9
The Lagrange multiplier method, Integer, quadratic, geometric and dynamic programming.
Unit IV
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Unit V
APPLICATIONS 9
Heat transfer and energy conservation; separation processes; fluid flow systems; reactor design and operation; large scale systems.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
- be familiar on the basic problem formulation and optimization.
- Understand mathematical characteristics of Linear programming
- Learn computational solution techniques for nonlinear unconstrained optimization.
- Understand various techniques used in constrained optimization
- Apply the optimal and dynamic optimization.
Text Books:
- Edgar T.F., Himmelblau D.M., Lasdon,L.S., Optimization of Chemical Processes, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001.
- Rao, S. S., Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition, Wiley, New York, 2019.
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