This is the hierarchical structure of Optimization section that has been carried out at PSE-Lab since the ’90s.
- Offline optimization
- Optimal design of specific and customized process units
- Optimal design of chemical plants
- Optimal trajectory of process variables in batch processes
- Batch distillation
- Drying processes in pharma industry
- On-line optimization
- Data analysis and pre-processing
- from in- on- at-line data
- Statistical analysis for trends, indicators, and outliers
- Data Reconciliation (classical approach) and Gross error detection
- Model identification and coaptation
- Optimization of sections/whole plants
- Degrees of freedom
- Upper and lower bounds
- Linear and non-linear constraints
- Constrained and unconstrained problems
- Data analysis and pre-processing
- Supervision of operating conditions
- Interaction with the control system and control loops
- Economic scheduling and planning of operations
- Applications to pharmaceutical companies and incineration plants
