Welcome to the Process Systems Engineering Laboratory

The MIT Process Systems Engineering Laboratory combines the academic and industrial experience of three principal investigators. A broad program of research is conducted on the analysis, modeling, simulation, optimization, design, control, and operation of process systems. Applications are primarily to chemical, petrochemical, electrochemical, pharmaceutical, and biomedical systems spanning length scales from the molecular to the nano- and micro-scales to very large-scale production facilities.

The three research groups are led by

pib [at] mit [dot] edu (Paul I. Barton)	braatz [at] mit [dot] edu (Richard D. Braatz)	geosteph [at] mit [dot] edu (George Stephanopoulos)

Barton Lab	Braatz Lab	Stephanopoulos Lab

PSEL in the News

Richard Braatz won 2011 IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award

Submitted by Achim Wechsung on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 14:00

Richard D. Braatz is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award, which recognizes "outstanding university-industry collaboration that enables the transition of control and systems theory to practical industrial or commercial systems." The citation for this award is "for significant contribution to the control of crystallization processes in the pharmaceutical industry."

Paul Barton won 2011 CAST "Computing in Chemical Engineering Award"

Submitted by Achim Wechsung on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:17

Paul Barton has won the 2011 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of AIChE's CAST Division. Paul is recognized for his pioneering research contributions in theory, numerical methods, software technologies for modeling, simulation, optimization of chemical engineering systems; and development of the field, "energy systems engineering."

The CAST Computing in Chemical Engineering Award recognizes outstanding contributions in the application of computing and systems technology to chemical engineering, and is sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company. The award will be presented to Paul at the CAST Division dinner, which will be held at the AIChE Annual Meeting this fall in Minneapolis, where Paul will also deliver the after dinner lecture associated with this award.

Paul Barton appointed as associate editor of JOTA

Submitted by Achim Wechsung on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:12

Paul Barton was appointed as associate editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.

Keynote presentation at CHEMPOR 2011

Submitted by Achim Wechsung on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 08:25

Pedro Sá Gomes' paper "Gas-Phase Simulated Moving Bed separation of propane/propylene: is it worth it?" was selected as the keynote presentation at the upcoming CHEMPOR 2011 - 11th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Pedro is a post-doctoral affiliate at MIT supported by a Marie Curie fellowship. His work is co-authored by Paul Barton and Pedro's thesis advisor Alírio E Rodrigues.

Paul Barton gives Bayer lecture at Carnegie Mellon University

Submitted by Achim Wechsung on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 16:51

Paul Barton is giving the Bayer lecture at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His talk discusses recent work in the laboratory on Optimal Design and Operation of Natural Gas Value Chains.

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