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Applications of nonlinear programming to detergent formulations

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Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society

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Designed experiments have been used to secure orthogonal data in a typical light duty liquid detergent system. Regression analyses of the data have provided prediction equations relating composition to performance and physical properties for formulations in this system. The use of these equations in a nonlinear programming computer optimization program is described, illustrated by examples taken from a limited subsystem wherein two of the six components are held constant. Costs, types and uses of such optimization procedures are considered.

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  1. Research and Development Department, Union Carbide Corporation, Chemicals and Plastics, P.O. Box 8361, 25303, South Charleston, West Virginia

    Edmund C. Steinle, Charles D. Hendrix & Robert R. Fields

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  1. Edmund C. Steinle
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One of seven papers being published from the Symposium, “Computer Systems and Applications in the Oil and Fat Industry” presented at the ISF-AOCS World Congress, Chicago, September 1970.

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Steinle, E.C., Hendrix, C.D. & Fields, R.R. Applications of nonlinear programming to detergent formulations. J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 48, 198–202 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02883752

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