Grade Selection and Blending to Optimize Cost and Quality - Karmarkar, Uday S; Rajaram, Kumar (Operations research, 2001)
Keywords: Asphalt; Capital costs; Chemical processes; Chemicals; Cost control; Cost functions; Economic costs; Fertilizers; Fixed costs; Glucose; Heuristic; Heuristics; Industrial production; Industries: chemical, food, and petrochemical sectors; Ingredients; Integer programming; Linear programming; Management; Manufacturing; Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing productivity: optimizing cost, and conformance quality; Mathematical programming; Minimization of cost; Operations management; Operations research; Optimal solutions; Optimization; Petrochemicals industry; Processes; Production costs; Production planning; Production planning: blending and grading in process industries; Productivity; Quality control; Software; Specialty chemicals industry; Studies; United States