Some Mixed Strategies Of Direct Search Methods And Their Applications In Chemical Process Optimizations

Abstract

In the optimization of chemical processes, which contain a number of control inputs, Dynamic Programming, Maximum Principle and Direct Search Methods can be used in some particular processes. In this paper, the Direct Search Methods and modified systematically and combined with five new techniques, so that four Mixed Strategies are formulated. With these Mixed Strategies, the optimization problems of some chemical processes are solved, and the effectiveness of these Mixed Strategies is confirmed.