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Fri, 03/02/2018

Generalized Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Programs (click here for full text) extends classical sensitivity results for nonlinear programs to cases...

Fri, 02/23/2018

In Bounds on stochastic chemical kinetic systems at steady state (click ...

Mon, 02/05/2018

In Optimal campaigns in end-to-end continuous pharmaceuticals manufacturing. Part 2: Dynamic optimization (click here for 50 days of free access), the authors investigate theoretical optimal campaigns in...

Tue, 11/21/2017

In Optimal shale oil and gas investments in the United States (click here for free access), the authors present a comprehensive supply chain optimization model to determine optimal shale oil and gas...

Thu, 08/10/2017

Michael Patrascu, currently a postdoctoral associate in PSEL, has won the EFCE Excellence Award in Process Intensification 2017 for his PhD dissertation. The award will be presented on Monday, 2 October 2017, 8:30 - 10:00 h, at the Award Ceremony of the 10th World Congress of Chemical...

Thu, 08/10/2017

How to solve a design centering problem (click here for free access) considers the problem of design centering. Geometrically, this can be thought of as inscribing one shape in another. Theoretical approaches and reformulations...

Mon, 08/07/2017

In Dynamic flux balance modeling to increase the production of high-value compounds in green microalgae (click here for free access), the authors present a flexible modeling formulation for accumulation of high-value storage...

Tue, 07/04/2017

Amir Akbari, a current postdoctoral associate in PSEL, has been awarded an NSF-funded Travel Grant to attend the World Congress of Chemical Engineering/ESCAPE 2017.

Wed, 06/21/2017

In Using semidefinite programming to calculate bounds on particle size distributions, Garrett R. Dowdy and Paul I. Barton have described a method for computing bounds on various industrially-relevant descriptions of a particle size distribution – CDF, D10, and so forth – using...

Fri, 06/02/2017

In Convergence-order analysis of branch-and-bound algorithms for constrained problems (click here), Rohit Kannan and Paul I. Barton investigate the convergence order of bounding schemes for deterministic global optimization algorithms....