Optimization

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

• 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