%0 Journal Article
%T The performance of simulated annealing in parameter estimation for vapor-liquid equilibrium modeling
%A Bonilla-Petriciolet
%A A.
%A Bravo-S¨˘nchez
%A U. I.
%A Castillo-Borja
%A F.
%A Zapiain-Salinas
%A J. G.
%A Soto-Bernal
%A J. J.
%J Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering
%D 2007
%I Brazilian Society of Chemical Engineering
%R 10.1590/S0104-66322007000100014
%X in this paper we report the application and evaluation of the simulated annealing (sa) optimization method in parameter estimation for vapor-liquid equilibrium (vle) modeling. we tested this optimization method using the classical least squares and error-in-variable approaches. the reliability and efficiency of the data-fitting procedure are also considered using different values for algorithm parameters of the sa method. our results indicate that this method, when properly implemented, is a robust procedure for nonlinear parameter estimation in thermodynamic models. however, in difficult problems it still can converge to local optimums of the objective function.
%K vapor-liquid equilibrium
%K simulated annealing
%K nonlinear parameter estimation
%K error-in-variable method
%K global optimization.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-66322007000100014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en