Modeling and Simulation

This is the hierarchical structure of Modeling and Simulation section that has been carried out at PSE-Lab since the ’90s.

• Mathematical modeling of
  • Physical phenomena
  • Equipment
  • Plant subsections
  • Industrial plants
    • Chemical and petrochemical plants
    • Pharmaceutical equipment
    • Incineration plants
  • Human body
    • Pharmacokinetics of active principles
    • Cancer/tumor growth

• Methods
  • Phenomenological models
    • First principles approach (material, energy, and momentum equations)
      • Algebraic non-linear equations system
      • Ordinary differential equations system
      • Differential & Algebraic equations system
      • Partial differential equations system
      • Integro-differential equations system
  • Empirical models
    • Black-box models for Identification
      • Linear and non-linear identification methods
      • ARX: autoregressive with exogenous input
      • ARMAX: autoregressive moving average model
      • NARX and NARMAX
    • ANN: artificial neural networks
      • Optimal network layout
      • First order and second order methods for training
      • HSA: history stack adaptation method
      • Remedies respect to overlearning, overparameterization

• Automated techniques for Design and Simulation of equipment and processes
  • Absorbers and strippers
  • Distillation columns
  • Incineration plants
    • Waste characterization and dust granulometric distribution
    • Drum kilns
    • Rotary kilns
    • Postcombustion chambers
    • Heat exchangers
      • Spiral exchangers
      • Cross tube exchangers
      • W-tube exchanger
      • Glass-tube exchanger
      • Radiative heat exchangers
    • Waste heat boilers
      • Water tube
      • Smoke tube
    • Venturi scrubbers
    • HCl absorbers
    • Conditioning towers
    • Gas preheaters
    • DeNOx-CatOx units
    • Gas-solid separators
      • Gravity settling chambers
      • Cyclone separators
      • Electrostatic precipitators
      • Fabric filters
  • Pharmaceutical processes and equipment
    • Microencapsulation of active principles
    • Mechanochemical activation of active principles
    • Simulation of drug release for microencapsulated particles
    • Perforated pans
    • Granulation units
    • Fluidized bed driers
    • Hg porosimetry