A Linear Programming Approach to the Chemical Equilibrium Problem

George Dantzig, Selmer Johnson and Wayne White
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George Dantzig: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
Selmer Johnson: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
Wayne White: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

Management Science, 1958, vol. 5, issue 1, 38-43

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.

Date: 1958
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