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CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Optimal periodic control of a drug delivery system
Administration of certain drugs at a steady rate results in deterioration of drug effect, also known as drug tolerance. Periodic delivery is an attractive option for minimizing to...
Subbarao Varigonda, Tryphon T. Georgiou, Ronald A....
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Combining optimization and simulation for strategic and operational industrial gas production and distribution
We describe flexible optimization models for the production and distribution of liquefied atmospheric gases. A simulation engine that interacts with the optimization models is use...
Wasu Glankwamdee, Jeff T. Linderoth, Jierui Shen, ...
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Differential recurrent neural network based predictive control
An efficient algorithm to train general differential recurrent neural networks is proposed. The trained network can be directly used as the internal model of a predictive controll...
R. K. Al Seyab, Yi Cao
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
A hierarchical decision procedure for productivity innovation in large-scale petrochemical processes
Maintaining the best quality is essential for the survival of a company in a globally competitive world. Six Sigma activity has been widely accepted as one of the most efficient a...
Chonghun Han, Minjin Kim, En Sup Yoon
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
A kinematic model of continuous separation and classification of polydisperse suspensions
Kinematic models for polydisperse suspensions are based on specifying the solid-fluid relative velocity for each solids species as a function of the local solids concentrations. On...
Raimund Bürger, A. García, Kenneth H. ...
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Dynamic modelling and control of planar anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell
Most solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) modelling efforts emphasize steady-state cell operation. However, understanding the dynamic behaviour is essential to predict the performance and...
A. Chaisantikulwat, C. Diaz-Goano, E. S. Meadows
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Optimal delivery of chemotherapeutic agents in cancer
In this paper, derivation of the optimal chemotherapy schedule is formulated and solved as a dynamic optimization problem. For this purpose two models representing the tumour grow...
Pinky Dua, Vivek Dua, Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
A fuzzy multiobjective algorithm for multiproduct batch plant: Application to protein production
This paper addresses the problem of the optimal design of batch plants with imprecise demands and proposes an alternative treatment of the imprecision by using fuzzy concepts. For...
A. Dietz, Alberto A. Aguilar-Lasserre, Catherine A...
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Distillation pinch points and more
Angelo Lucia, Amit Amale, Ross Taylor