A Linear Programming Approach to the Chemical Equilibrium Problem
Published Online:1 Oct 1958https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.5.1.38
Abstract
The well known chemical equilibrium problem is expressed in the form of minimizing the free energy of a mixture in order to compute the chemical composition at equilibrium.
By piece-wise linear approximations to the free energy function, the problem becomes a linear program which can be solved by a standard code on a computing machine. Successive approximations give any degree of accuracy.
