This manuscript reviews recent advances in deterministic global optimization for Mixed-
Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP), as well as Constrained Derivative-Free …

Highlights•State-of-the-art review of sustainable design and synthesis of energy
systems.•Research challenges of the superstructure optimization approach.•Incorporating …

As the global population grows, consumption of water, energy, and food will also increase,
placing stresses on these three sectors, raising the importance of the Water-Energy-Food …

Rising populations put huge stresses on natural resources. Extraction and depletion of raw
materials and waste created throughout the supply chain of products have enormous …

This paper introduces the global mixed-integer quadratic optimizer, GloMIQO, a numerical
solver addressing mixed-integer quadratically-constrained quadratic programs to ε-global …

This paper presents new definitions for process intensification identifying two main
categories called unit intensification and plant intensification. This paper also proposes …

This paper describes a new instance library for quadratic programming (QP), ie, the family of
continuous and (mixed)-integer optimization problems where the objective function and/or …

A bioconversion product and process network converts different types of biomass to various
fuels and chemicals via a plethora of technologies. Reliable bioconversion processing …

This paper presents a mathematical programing formulation for synthesizing water networks
associated with shale gas hydraulic fracturing operations while accounting for the system …

The pulp and paper (P&P) industries are classified among the water-intensitive industries. In
this work, implementation of the Water Closed-Loop System (WCLS) in a P&P factory to …