Generative ai and process systems engineering: The next frontier

B Decardi-Nelson, AS Alshehri, A Ajagekar… - Computers & Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review article explores how emerging generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models,
such as large language models (LLMs), can enhance solution methodologies within process …

Challenges in the new millennium: product discovery and design, enterprise and supply chain optimization, global life cycle assessment

IE Grossmann - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper first provides an overview of the financial state of the process industry, major
issues it currently faces, and job placement of chemical engineers in the US. These facts …

Distributed model predictive control of an experimental four-tank system

M Mercangöz, FJ Doyle III - Journal of process control, 2007 - Elsevier
A distributed model predictive control (DMPC) framework is proposed. The physical plant
structure and the plant mathematical model are used to partition the system into self …

A retrospective on design and process synthesis

AW Westerberg - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
We discuss the impact over the past 40 years of process systems thinking on the design of
chemical processes. We first explore the rich set of issues related to process design, only …

A simulation-based optimization framework for parameter optimization of supply-chain networks

FD Mele, G Guillen, A Espuna… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2006 - ACS Publications
This work presents a novel approach that addresses the management of chemical supply
chains (SCs) under demand uncertainty. One of the main objectives is to overcome the …

Addressing the operational challenges in the development, manufacture, and supply of advanced materials and performance products

JM Wassick, A Agarwal, N Akiya, J Ferrio, S Bury… - Computers & Chemical …, 2012 - Elsevier
The challenges of supplying advanced materials and performance products are very
different from those associated with commodity chemicals. Yet these challenges are well …

An agent-based approach for supply chain retrofitting under uncertainty

FD Mele, G Guillén, A Espuna, L Puigjaner - Computers & chemical …, 2007 - Elsevier
In this work, decisions that have a long lasting effect on the supply chain (SC) such as the
design and retrofit of a production/distribution network are considered. The retrofitting tasks …

Agent oriented petroleum supply chain coordination: Co-evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization based approach

AK Sinha, HK Aditya, MK Tiwari, FTS Chan - Expert Systems with …, 2011 - Elsevier
Globalization has enhanced the need for effective management of supply chain in global
context. As the supply chain gets bigger, it becomes increasingly complex as the number of …

110th Anniversary: On the Departure from Heuristics and Simplified Models toward Globally Optimal Design of Process Equipment

ALH Costa, MJ Bagajewicz - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Despite the large advances in computational tools attained by the Process Systems
Engineering community, industry for the most part still performs basic design of process …

A multi-agent system to facilitate component-based process modeling and design

A Yang, B Braunschweig, ES Fraga… - Computers & Chemical …, 2008 - Elsevier
Component-based software technology and software interfaces standardization initiatives,
such as CAPE–OPEN, have made it possible to model chemical processes and to perform …