TomSym Chemical Equilibrium Problem

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TomSym implementation of GAMS Example (CHEM,SEQ=21)

The problem is to find the equilibrium composition of a mixture of different atoms.

Bracken, J, and McCormick, G P, Chapter 5. In Selected Applications of Nonlinear Programming. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1968, pp. 48-49.

c: compounds (H, H2, H2O, N, N2, NH, NO, O, O2, OH)

i: atoms (H hydrogen, N nitrogen, O oxygen)

% Parameters

% Atoms per compound
a = [1   2    2  0   0   1   0  0   0   1;
    0   0    0  1   2   1   1  0   0   0;
    0   0    1  0   0   0   1  1   2   1];

% Number of elements in mixture
h=2; n=1; o=1;
mix = [h n o]';

% Gibbs free energy at 3500 k and 750 psi
gibbs = [-10.021; -21.096; -37.986; -9.846; -28.653; ...
    -18.918; -28.032; -14.640; -30.594; -26.11];

% Gibbs energy plus pressure
gplusp = gibbs + log(750*0.07031);

% Variables

% Number of mols in mixture
toms 10x1 x

% Component definition
eq1 = {};
for i=1:length(mix)
    eq1 = {eq1; sum(a(i,:)*x) == mix(i)};
end

% Energy definition (xb = total number of mols in mixture)
xb = sum(x);

% Total free energy in mixture
energy = sum(x.*(gplusp + log((x)/xb)));

% Bounds on x and xb
cbnd = {0.001 <= x; 0.01 <= xb};

solution = ezsolve(energy,{eq1, cbnd});

Problem type appears to be: con
Time for symbolic processing: 0.074995 seconds
Starting numeric solver
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Problem: ---  1: Problem 1                      f_k     -47.706514830836568000
                                       sum(|constr|)      0.000000000000000666
                              f(x_k) + sum(|constr|)    -47.706514830836568000
                                              f(x_0)     -0.209269531292347570

Solver: snopt.  EXIT=0.  INFORM=1.
SNOPT 7.2-5 NLP code
Optimality conditions satisfied

FuncEv   26 GradEv   24 Iter   15 MinorIter   37
CPU time: 0.015600 sec. Elapsed time: 0.014000 sec.