Introduction to Applications of CAMD

PART II: A p p l i c a t i o n s of CAMD The first part of the book dealt with some of the solution techniques commonly employed to tackle the CAMD problem. This part demonstrates the application and practice of some of those techniques to different types of problems in CAMD. Chapters 8 & 9 describe the industrial application of CAMD methods for solvent design and selection. In particular, the use of the hybrid CAMD method (chapter 6) is highlighted. Chapter 10 deals with optimal solvent design for blanket-wash using the optimization-based CAMD method of chapter 3. Chapter 11 extends the application of CAMD from single solvent design to solvent mixture design together with an application example. Chapter 12 provides an example of the application of the global optimization-based CAMD method of chapter 4 to optimal refrigerant design while chapter 13 highlights the application of genetic algorithm-based CAMD (chapter 5) to polymer design. Chapter 14 provides a detailed case study of the application of CAMD to identify multistep reaction stoichiometries (using the method described in chapter 7). Finally, chapter 15 presents the application of CAMD to design of fuel additives employing the genetic-algorithm based CAMD method of chapter 5.