News

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...

Thu, 07/30/2020

A research project that aims to avoid CO2 emissions within hydrogen production, led by the MIT professors Asegun Henry (Mechanical Engineering) and Paul Barton (Chemical Engineering, PSEL), has been awarded $750,000 in funding by the Center for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage...

Tue, 06/30/2020

Avinash Subramanian (currently a PhD student), Truls Gundersen, and Thomas Adams II (a PSEL alumni) have won the Processes 2020 Best Paper Award for their review paper "Modeling and Simulation of Energy Systems: A Review", which is available...

Mon, 06/22/2020

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kamil Khan, currently an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University and previously a Ph.D. student at PSEL, has won the 2020 CAST W. David Smith Graduate Publication Award. The award, shared with Blake Rawlings, will be recognized at...

Tue, 02/04/2020

The new Energy article Optimization of a Dual Mixed Refrigerant Process using a Nonsmooth Approach (click here for...

Wed, 09/04/2019

Caroline Nielsen, a current Ph.D. student at PSEL, has been selected to receive an AY19-20 MathWorks Engineering Fellowship.
The fellowship supports graduate students in the School of Engineering that actively use MathWorks software, and is awarded in recognition of an outstanding academic...

Wed, 06/19/2019

Joseph K. Scott, a former Ph.D student at PSEL, will be joining the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) at Georgia Tech as an Associate Professor.

Mon, 06/03/2019

The new article by Amir Akbari and Paul I. Barton, Integrating Genome-Scale and Superstructure Optimization Models in Techno-Economic Studies of Biorefineries, has been selected as the cover story for the journal Processes 2019, 7(5). The article is open-access and can be viewed...

Fri, 05/17/2019

Suzane Cavalcanti, a current Ph.D. student at PSEL, has been nominated an ExxonMobil-MIT Energy Fellow for the 2019-2020 academic year. In this time period, her research will be funded by ExxonMobil, a member company of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). 
The Society of Energy Fellows was...

Thu, 10/18/2018

In Simulation of Dual Mixed Refrigerant Natural Gas Liquefaction Processes Using a Nonsmooth Framework (click here for free access), a nonsmooth, multistream heat exchanger...