The multi-objective optimization of industrial operations using genetic algorithm and its
variants, often requires inordinately large amounts of computational (CPU) time. Any …

Fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) is regarded one of the most significant operations in the
oil refining industries to convert feedstock (mainly vacuum gasoil) to valuable products …

This review paper aims at compiling the various efforts in the direction of modeling and
simulation of fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU). Modeling of FCCU involves consideration …

For large-scale process monitoring, traditional decentralized monitoring methods fail to
discriminate real faults from normal operation deviations. This paper proposes a novel …

The fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process continued to be the major source of olefins
production with minimum CO2 emissions and high energy efficiency. It produces …

A CFD simulation was performed to evaluate the performance of a novel multiregime gas–
solid fluidized riser reactor that was designed to maximize the propylene yield from the …

This study provides insights into the optimal operation of the fluidized-bed catalytic cracking
unit (FCCU). A five-lump model is used to characterize the feed and the products. The model …

Multi-objective optimization of industrial chemical engineering operations using simulated
annealing (SA), genetic algorithm (GA) and their adaptations often requires large amounts of …

Multivariate measurements in complex industrial processes are commonly contaminated by
a number of outliers. In this context, robustness to the corrupted data is an important problem …

A process optimization system, which consists of a steady-state process model, a model
parameter estimator and a process optimizer for a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) process …