Rigorous Design of Complex Distillation Columns Using Process Simulators and the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

The authors would like to acknowledge financial support from the Spanish “Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion” (CTQ2009-14420-C02-02 and CTQ2012-37039-C02-02).

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