Foundations of a Computer Aided Process Design: 3rd International Conference Proceedings

Improved process engineering in general, and better process design specifically, hold the key to technology advancement in the chemical as well as biological, electronic, and other processing industries. This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design, which brought together engineers, scientists and graduate student researchers from a number of industrial, academic and government institutions throughout the world to assess and discuss the current status and future directions of computer aided process engineering. The specific objectives of the conference were to provide a forum for an in-depth review of the current state-of-the-art in chemical process design as well as an introduction to process and product design in other disciplines, an evaluation of current and future needs in process design, a formulation of new research directions in computer-aided process design and an examination of educational needs in chemical engineering design.

Table of Contents:
Keynote Address. Toward a theory and methodology of design (M.J. Wozny). Artificial Intelligence. Introduction: Artificial intelligence in design (J.C. Hale). Artificial intelligence and symbolic computing in process engineering design (G. Stephanopoulos). Computer-aided process design and production scheduling with knowledge base (K. Suzuki et al.). Process Synthesis. Introduction: Approaches to chemical process synthesis (D.W.T. Rippin). Synthesis of multistep reaction processes (J.M. Douglas). MINLP Optimization strategies and algorithms for process synthesis (J.E. Grossmann). Systems Analysis Tools. Introduction: Systems analysis tools for chemical process design (H.M. Gehrhardt). Nonlinear analysis in process design (W.D. Seider et al.). Strategies for simultaneous solution and optimization of differential-algebraic systems (L.T. Biegler). Recent developments in methods for finding all solutions to general systems of nonlinear equations (J.D. Seader). Process Design Issues. Introduction: Additional chemical process design issues (H.D. Spriggs). Retrofit process design - research and application of systematic methods (T. Gundersen). Progress and issues in computer-aided batch process design (G.V. Reklaitis). Design Environments. Introduction: Process design environments (E.M. Rosen). A computer-aided process synthesis and analysis environment (H.I. Britt et al.). Integrated process plant design (M.L. Preston). Chemical process modeling and simulation using advanced computational architectures (G.J. McRae). Product Design. Introduction: Product design (J.D. Wright). Designing molecules possessing desired physical property values (K.G. Joback and G. Stephanopoulos). New Challenges. Introduction: New challenges in process design (J.D. Perkins). Robust solution of flowsheeting equation systems (R.E. Swaney and C.E. Wilhelm). Systematic approaches to the synthesis of separation schemes for azeotropic mixtures (J.R. Knight and M.F. Doherty). Simultaneous process synthesis and control: Minimization of disturbance propagation in heat recovery systems (A. Georgiou and C.A. Floudas). Design of multipurpose batch plants with multiple production routes (N.M. Faqir and I.A. Karimi). Process design for polymer production (M.F. Malone and T.F. McKenna). Some issues in polymer processing analysis (A.N. Hrymak and A. Karagiannis). The Future of Design. Introduction: The future of product and process design (J.J. Siirola). A future computer environment for preliminary design (A.W. Westerberg et al.). Process design - what next? (R.W.H. Sargent). Author Index. Subject Index.