The Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making is engaged in process systems engineering research for the process industries. Our faculty are developing revolutionary advanced computer-based techniques for use in:

• Process Synthesis
• Process Optimization
• Planning and Scheduling
• Process Control Safety and Reliability

Research Goals

• Understand and aid complex design and operation issues faced by industry
• Develop and advance modeling and solution methods for process systems engineering

Research Areas

Modeling

• Solution of very large-scale systems of equations
• Large scale nonlinear programming
• Mixed-integer optimization
• Logic based optimization
• Global optimization
• Dynamic optimization
  

Synthesis

• Synthesis of reaction networks
• Complex separation systems
• Heat integration networks
• Integrated process flowsheets
• Optimal design of batch processes

Operation

• Flexible designs for multiperiod operation
• Planning and scheduling of batch and continuous processes
• Supply chain dynamics and optimization
• Planning for new product development
• Logic verification of processes
• Thermodynamic based process control Information modeling