Accession Number:
AD0702043
Title:
THE CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEM
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.
Corporate Author:
STANFORD UNIV CA OPERATIONS RESEARCH HOUSE
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Report Date:
1968-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
37.0
Abstract:
It has long been known that the problem of determining the equilibrium composition of a solution of chemically reacting species could be formulated as a constrained minimum problem. Previous methods for solving the chemical equilibrium problem in this form have had much success. However, all such methods run into trouble whenever degeneracy or near-degeneracy occurs during the computational procedure. The paper shows that the constrained minimum formulation of the chemical equilibrium problem is equivalent to a generalized linear program which can in turn be replaced by a quadratic program. In these alternative forms, degeneracy is more easily accomodated than in previous methods.
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Subject Categories:
- Physical Chemistry