A LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO THE CHEMICAL EQILIBRIUM PROBLEM

Authors
Dantzig, George Johnson, Selmer
Citation
Dantzig, George et Johnson, Selmer, A LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO THE CHEMICAL EQILIBRIUM PROBLEM, Management science , 38(1), 1992, pp. 38-43
Journal title
Management science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00251909
Volume
38
Issue
1
Year of publication
1992
Pages
38 - 43
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
The well known chemical equilibrium problem is expressed in the form of minimizing the free energy of a mixture in order to compute the chemical composition at equilibrium. By piece-wise linear approximations to the free energy function, the problem becomes a linear program which can he solved by a standard code on a computing machine. Successive approximations give any degree of accuracy.