Large amounts of organic solid waste are generated daily throughout the world.
Hydrothermal processing has been shown to be a promising solution for dealing with this …

Enterprise-wide sustainability involves aspects from molecular-scale design to macroscale
facilities. Typically, these aspects are treated as independent sub-problems. Maintaining …

Chemicals based products and the processes that manufacture them play important roles in
sustaining our society. Chemical, biochemical, petrochemical and related processes are …

We present a detailed dynamic model for a reactive distillation system, based on which we
develop design-dependent explicit optimal control strategies. A mixed-integer dynamic …

This study introduces a Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach for generating, designing,
and controlling chemical process flowsheets (CPFs). The proposed RL framework makes …

In this work, we propose a systematic framework to synthesize process intensification
systems with guaranteed operability, safety, and control performances accounting for both …

A methodology for simultaneous design and control for dynamic systems under uncertainty
has been developed. The algorithm moves away (back-off) from the optimal steady-state …

The aim of this study is to present a stochastic back-off methodology for integration of design
and control using probabilistic-based descriptions in the uncertainty. A challenging task in …

Highlights•Productivity improvements in the bio-based industry include reducing waste
generation.•Opportunities and challenges of introducing resource recovery technologies to …

This work presents the optimal design and operation of catalytic distillation (CD) units
considering discrete and continuous design and operation variables combined with rigorous …