Process flowsheet superstructures: Structural multiplicity and redundancy: Part II: Ideal and binarily minimal MINLP representations

The essential problems, namely representativeness and uniqueness, in defining mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) representation (MR) is solved in Part I by first defining a basic MR (BMR) that: (1) can be automatically constructed from an easier formable standard GDP representation and (2) serves as a reference representation. Binary and continuous multiplicity of MR are also defined in Part I, and relation is given there between structural redundancy and binary multiplicity. Based on this results, ideal and binarily minimal MR-s are defined, and the different MR-s are compared from numerical point of view in t d