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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The challenges of supplying advanced materials and performance products are very different from those associated with commodity chemicals. Yet these challenges are well …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …