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Thu, 12/21/2023

The new open access article Optimization under uncertainty of a hybrid waste tire and natural gas feedstock flexible polygeneration system using a decomposition algorithm can be downloaded ...

Thu, 12/21/2023

The new article Tighter Bounds on Transient Moments of Stochastic Chemical Systems, by Flemming Holtorf and Paul Barton, can be freely accessed here

Abstract:

The use of approximate...

Sat, 06/18/2022

Dr. Joseph Scott, associate professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been awarded the 2022 CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award. 

The award recognizes an individual under the age of 40 for outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering computing...

Wed, 04/06/2022

The article Global optimization of a hybrid waste tire and natural gas feedstock polygeneration system (click here for free access until May 20) presents the globally optimal design and...

Mon, 07/19/2021

Prof. Paul I. Barton has been awarded the 2021 Constantin Caratheodory Prize in Global Optimization, together with Prof. Hoai An Le Thi from the University of Lorraine, France. The prize is awarded bi-annually to an individual...

Mon, 06/28/2021

Suzane Cavalcanti, a current Ph.D. student at PSEL, has been selected to receive an AY21-22 MathWorks Engineering Fellowship.
The MathWorks Engineering Fellowship Fund was established by MathWorks, Inc. in 2019 and provides graduate student support to students that are active users
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Mon, 06/21/2021

We would like to congratulate Thomas Adams, an Associate Professor at McMaster University and former postdoctoral assistant at PSEL, and Dominik Bongartz, group leader at the Chair of Process Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and former PhD student...

Thu, 04/22/2021

The newly published article Production of biofuels from sunlight and lignocellulosic sugars using microbial consortia, by J. A. Gomez, K. Höffner and P. I. Barton, can be accessed for free here within the...

Tue, 04/06/2021

We are pleased to inform that Braden Gilleland, a first-year PhD student at PSEL, has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

The broad goal of the project is to develop Methane Pyrolysis (or Methane Cracking) as a more economically viable way to decarbonize hydrogen production...

Fri, 11/06/2020

The new article Nonsmooth Hessenberg Differential-Algebraic Equations by Peter Stechlinski and Paul Barton (click here for 50 days of free access) studies Hessenberg differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) of size...