ADVANCED PROCESS ENGINEERING

CENGM002/CENGG013

Prof. Lazaros Papageorgiou

Prof. David Bogle
Department of Chemical Engineering
University College London

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Energy and Sustainability

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Multi-scale Systems Biology

Personalised Medicine

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Design of Products

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Operations and Control

OPTIMISER
CONTROL ACTIONS
PLANT STATE

PLANT

Model Predictive Control (MPC)

target
future

past
output

manipulated
variable

k+1
Prediction Horizon

k+p

Supply Chain Optimisation

Capacity Planning

Product Flows

Multi-scale Modelling

Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE)/

Process Systems Engineering (PSE)
Process Modelling and Simulation
Product and Process Design
Operations and Control
What is the BEST (i.e. optimal) solution?

 Aims: Advanced use of computers in process

design, operation and management. Particular
emphasis is placed on Process Synthesis.
Learning Outcomes: On completion the students
will be expected:
to be aware of the role of optimisation techniques in
plant design, operation and management;
to be aware of numerical techniques for solving
continuous and discrete optimisation problems;
to be able to formulate and solve complex
optimisation problems both analytically and using
computational tools;
to be aware of techniques for process synthesis and
be familiar with a contemporary tool.

 Synopsis:
Approaches to process synthesis, design and
optimisation. Linear programming by the simplex and the
graphical methods. (IDLB)
Introduction to non-linear process optimisation, optimality
criteria, conditions for an optimum, unconstrained
optimisation, constrained optimisation. Application to
flowsheet optimisation. (IDLB)
Discrete modelling of process systems. Solution
methods for discrete optimisation problems: integer
programming, mixed integer linear programming, mixed
integer non-linear programming. Process synthesis using
implicit enumeration. Algorithmic approaches to
synthesis of sustainable systems: heat exchanger
networks. (LGP)
Introduction to process optimisation under uncertainty.
(IDLB)

Coordinator: Prof L G Papageorgiou

Coursework: ~5 projects
Examination: 2 hour unseen written paper
Assessment: Written examination plus coursework
projects
Breakdown: Exam: 50%, CW: 50%

Lectures
Mon 9:00-11:00 (HOSChild)
Thu 11:00-13:00 (188 Tottenham Court Road/R5)

Labs
Foster Court B29 (Tue 14:00-18:00)
Lab times will be announced through Moodle and/
or in the lecture
Not all the times mentioned in the timetable will be
used for the labs

Textbook(s)
"Optimisation of Chemical Processes" by T F Edgar and D A
Himmelblau, published by McGraw Hill 1988.
"Model Building in Mathematical Programming" by H P Williams,
published by Wiley 1999.
"Process Design Principles" by W D Seider, J D Seader and D R
Lewin, published by Wiley 1999.
"Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design" by L T Beigler, I E
Grossmann and A W Westerberg, published by Prentice Hall 1997.
"Nonlinear and mixed-integer Optimization" by C A Floudas, published
by Oxford UniversityPress 1995.

GAMS
Agricultural Economics
Applied General
Equilibrium
Branch and Cut and
Heuristic
Chemical Engineering
Econometrics
Economic
Development
Disjunctive
Programming
Energy Economics
Engineering

Finance
Forestry
International Trade
Macro Economics
Management Science
and OR
Mathematics
Micro Economics
Stochastic
Programming
Statistics
Recreational Models
Special Integer Models