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Application of Optimization to the Study of Chemical Processes

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% Title Economic Operation of a Fixed-Bed Filter via Nonlinear Programming

% Reference: Edgar, Himmelblau and Lasdon in Optimization of
% Chemical Processes, McGraw-Hill International Edition, 2001

% Author of the matlab file: Housam Binous, PhD, Tunis, Tunisia
% Email: binoushousam@yahoo.com

% The same problem was solved using Mathematica and GAMS.
% GAMS ans Mathematica files are available from the author upon request.

Q0=5,
[Q feval]=fminsearch(@filterOPT,Q0)
Vf=700*3*log10(10/0.081*1/3*1/Q)

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