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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
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Stochastic-based accuracy of data reconciliation estimators for linear systems
Accuracy of an instrument has been traditionally defined as the sum of the precision and the bias. Recently, this notion was generalized to estimators [Bagajewicz, M. (2005a). On ...
Miguel J. Bagajewicz, DuyQuang Nguyen
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Population balance modeling in Simulink: PCSS
In this work we develop, demonstrate, and distribute the code for a new Simulink block that models the dynamic evolution of the population density function for a physical system w...
Jeffrey D. Ward, Cheng-Ching Yu
CCE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Chemical supply chain network optimization
Chemical supply chain networks provide large opportunities for cost reductions through the redesign of the flow of material from producer to customer. In this paper we present a m...
Jeff Ferrio, John Wassick