Controllable Design of Process
- Introduction: course objectives, motivating examples, course outline, prerequisites, evaluation, and steps in process design: BFD, PFD ,P&ID.
- The interaction of process design and operability: qualitative study of the effect of design alternatives on process operability with process examples
- Decision variables in control design: Selection of controlled variables, manipulated variables, and their pairing. control algorithms and parameters
- Early methods for integrated controllability 1: definitions, quantitative controllability analysis, design modification by iteration
- Early methods for integrated controllability 2: quantitative controllability analysis (contd)
- Early methods for integrated controllability 3 contd
- Systematic process design via optimization: review of different superstructure formulations for optimal design such as NLP and MINLP
- Integration of controllability measures into process design optimization 1: multi-objective optimization (steady state), theory of multi-objective optimization and different formulation methods
- Integration of controllability measures into process design optimization 2: controllability measures via bi-level optimization, review of the theory, formulation, and challenges of bi-level optimization
- Simultaneous process and control design, Introduction 1: motivation, introduction to dynamic optimization and its application to design and control problems
- Simultaneous process and control design, Introduction 2: solution of dynamic optimization problems using sequential approach
- Simultaneous process and control design 1: simultaneous design of process, control structure, and tuning using MIDO formulations
- Simultaneous process and control design 2: advantages and disadvantages of MIDO formulations
- Review and conclusions
- Projects: preliminary results presentations