Accession Number:
AD0706019
Title:
DEGENERACY IN IDEAL CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.
Corporate Author:
STANFORD UNIV CA OPERATIONS RESEARCH HOUSE
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1970-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
53.0
Abstract:
A single- or multi-phase chemical equilibrium problem may be though of as the problem of minimizing a particular nonlinear function the free energy of composition subject to the conditions that the composition vector be nonnegative and satisfy a system of linear equations the mass-balance laws. It was pointed out in a previous paper AD-706 018 that the free energy is convex and homogeneous of degree one, but that as a variable approaches zero, the free energy may behave badly. In this paper, the phase chemical equilibrium problem refers only to a problem with a particular mathematical form. Problems of this form arise in many situations that are not classically denoted chemical equilibrium problems.
Subject Categories:
- Physical Chemistry