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CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Optimal waste reduction and investment planning under uncertainty
Ever-changing production campaigns complicate the management of recovery and treatment options for unavoidable effluents at pharmaceutical plants. Each campaign produces large amo...
Aninda Chakraborty, Andres Malcolm, Richard D. Col...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
A decomposition method for synthesizing complex column configurations using tray-by-tray GDP models
This paper describes an optimization procedure for the synthesis of complex distillation configurations. A superstructure based on the Reversible Distillation Sequence Model (RDSM...
Mariana Barttfeld, Pío A. Aguirre, Ignacio ...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Tabu search algorithm for chemical process optimization
: This paper presents a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, Tabu Search (TS), and describes how it can be used to solve a wide variety of chemical engineering problems. Modifica...
B. Lin, D. C. Miller
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Stochastic maximum principle for optimal control under uncertainty
Optimal control problems involve the difficult task of determining time-varying profiles through dynamic optimization. Such problems become even more complex in practical situatio...
Vicente Rico-Ramírez, Urmila M. Diwekar
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Module-oriented automatic differentiation in chemical process systems optimization
It is common that external procedures are incorporated into an equation-oriented model when modeling complex chemical process systems. The so-obtained models are called composite ...
Xiang Li, Zhijiang Shao, Jixin Qian
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Multimodel analysis and controller design for nonlinear processes
Multimodel analysis and controller design for nonlinear processes via gap metric is discussed. It is shown that the loop-shaping H approach can integrate the procedure of selectin...
Wen Tan, Horacio J. Marquez, Tongwen Chen, Ji-zhen...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Designing reactive distillation processes: present and future
The potential benefits of applying reactive distillation (RD) processes are taxed by significant complexities in process development and design. The design problem is formulated i...
C. P. Almeida-Rivera, P. L. J. Swinkels, J. Grievi...
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Pharmaceutical supply chains: key issues and strategies for optimisation
Supply chain optimisation is now a major research theme in process operations and management. A great deal of research has been undertaken on facility location and design, invento...
Nilay Shah