CACHE TRC, Process and Product Design

Process and Product Design

Considering the breadth of Process and Product Design the links and material below are divided into five different categories:

1) Course Materials
2) Optimization websites
3) Discussion Groups
4) Software
5) Research

Course Materials

Carnegie-Mellon University Course Materials (6-421)
These materials were prepared by Professor Lorenz T. Biegler for the first design course. They include the course syllabus, homework, and project assignments.

Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design (Biegler, Grossmann, Westerberg - Prentice-Hall, 1998)
This is a link to the web site for this textbook.

Case Study - Nitrogen from Air.
This case study was prepared by a design group at Carnegie-Mellon University under the direction of Professor Lorenz T. Biegler. It contains detailed process descriptions, simulation input files, calculated results, and animations. A report can be downloaded from this web site.

Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers - Fourth Edition (Peters and Timmerhaus, McGraw-Hill, 1991)
This is a link to the web site for this textbook.

Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes (Douglas, McGraw-Hill, 1998)
This is a link to the web site for this textbook.

Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratory Design and Process Safety Research Class Notes
University of Kansas. This material was prepared by Dr. Colin Howat
CPE 613: Chemical Engineering Design I
CPE 623: Design 2
CPE 624: Plant and Environmental Safety

Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratory Resource Center Teaching Paper Archive
Teaching Papers and Posters Available:
Howat: Plant & Environmental Safety:A Course Focused on Reducing Risk and Accepting Uncertainty
Howat: Plant & Environmental Safety: Risk and Uncertainity Analysis a Course Beyond Steady-State and Desired Performance
Swift and Howat: An Argument for Integrating Problem Solving Across the Curriculum: Roles of the AIChE Design Contest Problem and Team Work in Academe.
Howat: Integration of Process Simulation Software into Capstone

Cornell University Course Materials (ChemE 462)
These materials were prepared for the first design course.

Drexel University Course Materials - provided by Professor Elihu Grossman
First Course ChE 481
Second Course ChE 482
Third Course ChE 483

Amortization Calculator
This calculator determines the future value of an annuity given the payment per period, the interest rate, and the number of periods.

Integration of Commercial Dynamic Simulators
This presentation shows how to incorporate dynamic simulations with practical examples. It is provided by Professor Michael A. Henson and Yongchun Zhang of Louisiana State University.

Thermochemical Calculator (TCC)
This software carries out calculations for reacting ideal gas mixtures. Its capabilities include reaction balancing and thermochemistry, calculation of chemical equilibrium, simulations of well-stirred reactors, calculation of thermodynamic and transport properties, and the execution of various thermodynamic processes. It is provided by Professor David Goodwin, California Institute of Technology.

University of Minnesota Product Design Course Materials (ChEn 4501)
These materials include the course syllabus, as well as the title page, table of contents, and Chapter 3 (Ideas), from Chemical Product Design (Cussler and Moggridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes (Turton, Bailie, Whiting, Shaeiwitz – Prentice-Hall, 1997)
This is a link to the web site for this textbook.

Library of Design Projects for Entire Curriculum
These projects have been developed and used by Professor Joe Shaeiwitz of West Virginia University. Problem statements are provided, many of which are prepared for courses throughout the curriculum. Others are prepared for the capstone design course.

Library of Environmentally-related Design Projects
These projects have been developed in a joint project between Professor Joe Shaeiwitz (West Virginia University) and Professors Joan Brennecke and Mark Stadtherr (Notre Dame University).

Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis, and Evaluation (Seider, Seader, and Lewin – Wiley, 1999)
This is a link to the web site for this textbook.

Process Design Courses at the University of Pennsylvania
This web site contains links to the course syllabus, homework assignments, and software provided profitability analysis. In addition, links are provided to articles describing the Penn design sequence and our multimedia instructional materials.

Design Projects
Most of these projects have been provided by “industrial consultants” from local companies for students at the University of Pennsylvania. The designs are carried out by groups of three students during the second semester of their senior year. Their design reports are bound and stored in the Towne Library, and are often accessed using Interlibrary Loans.

Technion Course Materials
This website includes the objectives and schedule for the process design course at the Technion. It was developed by Professor Daniel R. Lewin.

University College London Course Materials
This document summarizes the conceptual process design sequence throughout the four-year curriculum. It was prepared by Professor David Bogle.

Design Project Statements
These projects were prepared by Professor David Bogle of University College London.

Auburn University Course Materials (ChE 5460)
These materials were prepared by Professor Mahmoud El-Halwagi for the first design course. They include the course syllabus.

University of Illinois Course Materials
These materials were prepared by Professor Nikos Sahinidis. They include the course syllabi for several courses in the process engineering area, including synthesis and design, control, algorithms, and optimization courses.

University of Illinois at Chicago Course Materials
These materials were prepared by Professor Andreas Linninger for courses related to product and process design. They include course syllabi, homework assignments, projects, and tutorials for courses in process design, process control, separation processes, and advanced systems engineering.

Chemical Engineering Materials Design Module (10.491)
This describes a six-week module that involves a case study of a product design problem, with a focus on an environmentally benign new polymer. It was developed by Professor Gregory C. Rutledge at M.I.T. Included are the syllabus, course notes, and assignments.

Course Materials associated with Minerals Processing Research – Louisiana State University
This site was prepared by Professor Ralph Pike. It includes links to the textbook Optimization for Engineering Systems by Professor Pike, POWER POINT slides for internet courses on “risk assessment” and “online optimization”, and computer programs for the synthesis of heat-exchanger networks, pollution assessment, and online optimization.

Optimization Websites

Research in the MCS Division at Argonne National Laboratory
Aims at increasing intellectual and technical leadership in the computing sciences. Has descriptions of and links to computing resources, including scalable parallel supercomputers, virtual reality and multimedia environments, and a Distributed Systems Laboratory

NEOS Server for Optimization
Optimization solver software. Optimization problems are solved automatically with minimal input from the user. Users only need a definition of the optimization problem; all additional information required by the optimization solver is determined automatically.

"Optimization for Engineering Systems"
Optimization Book by Ralph W. Pike, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Systems Science, Louisiana State University

The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS)
A high-level modeling system for mathematical programming problems. This site has documentation and related user publications and contributions.

Global Optimization
A comprehensive archive of online information on (non-commercial) global optimization, and somewhat less comprehensive on local optimization, collected by Arnold Neumaier of the Computational Mathematics group at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Minerals Processing Research Institute
Processing, economic and environmental research for oil and natural gas, sulfur, salt and lignite. Focus on minerals processing research for chemical plants and petroleum refineries.

Decision Tree for Optimization Software
Has solutions to optimization problems, collection of test results and performance tests, example files ready to use with existing software, softwares which helps formulating an optimization problem or simplifying its solution, and many other helpful materials for optimization.

Michael Trick's Operations Research Page
The site has pointers to all aspects of operations research like computer programs, conferences, journals, newsgroups and e-mail lists, courses, research groups, job information and many other.

Process Design information resources relevant to chemical and process engineering in the Virtual Library.

Process Modeling information resources relevant to chemical and process engineering in the Virtual Library.

Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
IlliGAL is a part of the General Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At IlliGAL, they study nature's search algorithm of choice, genetics and evolution, as a practical approach to solving difficult problems on a computer.

Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization
This web site is intended to be a supplement to the Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The principal objective of this book is to present a collection of challenging test problems arising in literature studies and a wide spectrum of applications

MINOPT
A Modeling Language and Algorithmic Framework for Linear, Mixed-Integer, Nonlinear, Dynamic, and Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization. MINOPT is a comprehensive, powerful, and flexible package for the solution of various types of optimization problems.

Advanced System for Process ENgineering (ASPEN) Virtual Library The ASPEN PLUS Virtual Library aims to make available many examples, case studies and tutorials on using the Advanced System for Process ENgineering. All ASPEN PLUS Virtual Library resources are available via a World Wide Web server located at the University of Florida Chemical Engineering Department.

Nonlinear Programming FAQ
Optimization Technology Center of Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory

Linear Programming FAQ
Optimization Technology Center of Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory

Ecosse Group A computer aided process engineering research programme. Includes technical reports that encompases the whole range of activities carried out by engineers to improve the final product: in this case, the chemical plant.

Research

CAPD – Center for Advanced Process Decision Making
CAPD is a Carnegie-Mellon Research Center engaged in process systems engineering research for the process industries. The center involves research on advanced computer-based techniques for process synthesis, process optimization, planning and scheduling, process control, and safety and reliability.

Computer Aided Process Engineering Group – University of Wales This group carries out research involving mathematical modeling of industrial processes and the use of the computer in process design. Also included is theoretical and experimental research on the application of computational and numerical methods in the solution of process design problems. Several research projects are described.

Sustainable Process Development – Loughborough University
This group develops methods for product and production plant development and design. It considers all stages in production and use, resulting in plants and products that are sustainable and of benefit, or at least not harmful in terms of safety, health and environmental impact, to all that they impinge upon. Included are summaries of several research projects.

Discussion Groups

Process Systems Research Consortia
Selected Consortia's from reputed Universities and Colleges. It is also in Process Control.

Software

Advanced Process Analysis System
Performs comprehensive and in-depth evaluations of economic and environmental analysis projects. In addition to increased profit and improved efficiency of operations, it helps identify pollutants in chemical processes and petroleum refineries and develop innovative, economically viable designs to eliminate their generation.

Interactive On-line Optimization
An automated system that adjusts the operation of a plant based on product scheduling and production control to maximize profit and minimize emissions by providing optimal set points to the distributed control system.

The Heat Exchanger Network (THEN)
Synthesizes a heat exchanger network that is feasible and has a low investment cost, based on the method of thermodynamic pinch analysis.

EUREKA Software List
The European Committee for Computers in Chemical Engineering Education (EUREKA) was formed in 1983 to enable software for teaching and methods of computer-aided teaching to be exchanged between universities in Europe. Packages are included for process simulation, heat-transfer equipment, economic analysis, and reactor design, among others.

DAEPACK (A Symbolic and Numeric Library for Open Modeling)
DAEPACK (pronounced D-A-E-PACK) is a software library for general numerical calculations. DAEPACK is divided into two major libraries: symbolic analysis and transformation, and numerical calculation. The symbolic analysis and transformation library consists of components for analyzing general FORTRAN-90 models and automatically generating the information required when using modern numerical algorithms. This software is provided by Professor Paul I. Barton of M.I.T.

ABACUSS II (Advanced Modeling Environment and Embedded Simulator)
ABACUSS II is the next generation open modeling environment and simulator. Designed from the ground up to be as flexible as possible, ABACUSS II can be used standalone or embedded within another application. For example, ABACUSS II is available as a shared library (DLL in Win32) where it can be used with the graphical user interface (GUI) provided or readily used with a custom user interface (e.g., created using Visual Basic) to solve a wide variety of problems. Alternatively, ABACUSS II can be easily and seamlessly embedded within another application (e.g., Microsoft EXCEL or an automation software system) where the full functionality and power of ABACUSS II can be obtained with a single click of a button. This software is provided by Professor Paul I. Barton of M.I.T.

BARON Global Optimization Software
BARON is a computational system for solving nonconvex optimization problems to global optimality. Purely continuous, purely integer, and mixed-integer nonlinear problems can be solved. This software is provided by Professor Nikos Sahinides of the University of Illinois.

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