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In this chapter, we shall discuss two successful applications of Differential Evolution (DE) on mass transfer problems: (1) Optimization of Liquid Extraction Process, (2) Optimization of a Separation Train of Distillation Columns, and (3) Optimization and Synthesis of Heat Integrated Distillation Column Sequences.
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Babu, B.V. (2004). Applications in Mass Transfer. In: New Optimization Techniques in Engineering. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39930-8_10
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