| Lectures: 4 Periods/Week | Sessional Marks: 30 |
| University Exam: 3 Hours | University Examination Marks: 70 |
UNIT-I
Nature and Organization of optimization problems, fitting models to data, formulation of objective functions.
Basic concepts of optimization, optimization of unconstrained function, one dimensional search.
UNIT-II
Linear programming and applications.
UNIT-III
Optimization recovery of waste heat, shell and tube heat exchanger, evaporator design, liquid-liquid extraction process, optimal design of staged distillation column.
UNIT-IV
Optimal pipe diameter, optimal residence time for maximum yield in an ideal isothermal batch reactor, chemostat, optimization of a thermal cracker using linear programming.
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