This chapter provides first an introduction an types of optimization problems that arise in different areas of process systems engineering. It then provides a general classification of optimization problems: linear and mixed-integer linear programming, nonlinear and mixed-integer nonlinear programming, generalized disjunctive programming, decomposition methods, stochastic programming, and flexibility analysis. Finally it reviews the outline of the book through the different chapters.
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