An overview of process systems engineering approaches for process intensification: State of the art

Y Tian, SE Demirel, MMF Hasan… - … and Processing-Process …, 2018 - Elsevier
Process intensification offers the potential to drastically reduce the energy consumption and
cost of producing chemicals from both bulk and distributed feedstocks. This review article …

Modeling and simulation of energy systems: A review

ASR Subramanian, T Gundersen, TA Adams - Processes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Energy is a key driver of the modern economy, therefore modeling and simulation of energy
systems has received significant research attention. We review the major developments in …

A fuzzy pricing model for a green competitive closed-loop supply chain network design in the presence of disruptions

M Ghomi-Avili, SGJ Naeini… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a fuzzy bi-objective bi-level model with a price-dependent demand for
the network design of a closed-loop supply chain in the presences of random disruptions at …

Designing a resilient competitive supply chain network under disruption risks: A real-world application

A Ghavamifar, A Makui, AA Taleizadeh - Transportation research part E …, 2018 - Elsevier
We address an intra-supply chain competition where a producer and resellers competing to
achieve their goals, while taking into consideration the uncertainties and disruption risks. We …

Multiperiod planning of distribution networks under competitive electricity market with penetration of several microgrids, part I: Modeling and solution methodology

MHS Boloukat, AA Foroud - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
According to the increasing penetration of microgrids (MGs) in power systems, the design
and implementation of these new emerged structures are under the question of planners …

Analytical and triangular solutions to operational flexibility analysis using quantifier elimination

F Zhao, X Chen - AIChE Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The main purpose of operational flexibility analysis is to determine and describe the
flexibility region. The existing methods are mainly developed by numerical calculation …

A mixed-integer conic programming formulation for computing the flexibility index under multivariate gaussian uncertainty

JL Pulsipher, VM Zavala - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a methodology for computing the flexibility index when uncertainty is
characterized using multivariate Gaussian random variables. Our approach computes the …

Nonlinear robust optimization for process design

Y Yuan, Z Li, B Huang - AIChE Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A novel robust optimization framework is proposed to address general nonlinear problems
in process design. Local linearization is taken with respect to the uncertain parameters …

Surrogate-based feasibility analysis for black-box stochastic simulations with heteroscedastic noise

Z Wang, M Ierapetritou - Journal of Global Optimization, 2018 - Springer
Feasibility analysis has been developed to evaluate and quantify the capability that a
process can remain feasible under uncertainty of model inputs and parameters. It can be …

A switched dynamical system approach towards the optimal control of chemical processes based on a gradient-based parallel optimization algorithm

X Wu, J Lin, K Zhang, M Cheng - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper considers an optimal control problem of chemical processes with a novel
piecewise state-feedback controller. Firstly, the chemical process optimal control problem is …