Significant progress in the area of simultaneous design and control for chemical processes
has been achieved and various methodologies have been put forward to address this issue …

During the whole of history, distillation has been the most extensive separation method.
Regardless of its flexibility and simplicity, distillation technology is highly energy consuming …

Nonlinear equality and inequality constrained optimization problems with uncertain
parameters can be addressed by a robust worst-case formulation that leads to a bi-level min …

The optimal solution in dynamic optimization of batch processes often exhibits active path
constraints. The goal of this work is the robust satisfaction of path constraints in the presence …

In this work we address the steady state optimization of a supply chain model that belongs to
the class of vendor managed inventory, automatic pipeline, inventory and order based …

Abstract (DE) This dissertation presents an exhaustive comparative study on optimization in
structural acoustics. A combination of a commercially available finite element software …

Information on steady-state bifurcations, most notably stability boundaries, is frequently used
for the analysis and design of nonlinear systems. The bifurcation points separate regions …

To date, sensitivity, bifurcation and singularity analysis have been employed to identify and
characterize the qualitative nonlinear behaviour of chemical process systems. The …

We apply a robust steady state optimization method for stiff delay differential equations to the
economic optimization of a fluidized catalytic cracking unit. Stiff systems of differential …

This contribution extends the normal vector method for the optimization of parametrically
uncertain dynamical systems to a general class of nonlinear discrete time systems …