CAPD e-Newsletter, October 2006 http://capd.cheme.cmu.edu Dear CAPD member, Welcome to the fourth CAPD e-Newsletter! We hope this newsletter will have information that is of interest to you. Best regards, Ignacio Grossmann - Annual Review Meeting The Annual Review Meeting of CAPD will take place on March 12-13, 2007. As we did last year, we will have a reception on Sunday evening, March 11, and a group dinner on Monday, March 12. If you are interested in giving a short presentation or you have any suggestions for the format of the meeting, please let us know. - Short course The CAPD short course took place on May 31-June 6, 2006. For next year, the course is scheduled on June 6 - 12, 2007, and will be organized in three modules: Conceptual Design (6-6/6-7), Optimization (6-8/6-9), Operations (6-11/6-12). CAPD members can take one, two or all three modules and receive a 25% discount. http://capd.cheme.cmu.edu/shortcourse.html The detailed contents are described in: http://capd.cheme.cmu.edu/shortcourse_details.htm - Enterprise-wide Optimization NOVA Chemicals has joined the project "Computational Models and Algorithms for Enterprise-wide Optimization of Process Industries." This project has been funded by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA), and currently involves the participation of ABB, Air Products, BP, Dow Chemical, and ExxonMobil. The project involves a total of 7 Ph.D. students, and 5 faculty (CMU: Biegler, Grossmann, Hooker; Lehigh: Linderoth; UPitt: Schaeffer). The next two meetings scheduled for this group are November 9, 2006, following the INFORMS meeting, and March 14, 2007, following the CAPD meeting.A webpage describing this project as well as Powerpoint slides can be found in: http://egon.cheme.cmu.edu/ewocp/ Companies interested in participating in this research program should contact grossmann@cmu.edu - 2006 INFORMS Annual Meeting. This meeting will take place in Pittsburgh, November 5-8, 2006. http://www2.informs.org/Conf/Pittsburgh06/ There will be four sessions on Enterprise?wide Optimization that involve several presentations by our interest group: https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/clustersessionlist.asp?clnno=1109&mmnno=154 Other papers can be found in: https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/websitepapersv2.asp - Bayer Lecture in Process Systems Engineering. Professor Nick Sahinidis from the University of Illinois delivered this lecture on Tuesday, May 2, at 10:45AM in DH1112. The title of his lecture was, "Optimization in the Informatics Era," http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/newsevents/news/archive/05-06/bayer.htm - Faculty News Larry Biegler is currently on sabbatical leave on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg. This leave also includes seminar visits to the Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg and Technical University of Dresden, a short course at the Technical University of Ilmenau as well as plenary talks at the Fast NMPC IFAC Workshop in Grenoble, France and the Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms (VOCAL) in Hungary. He will return at the end of December. Ignacio Grossmann delivered the plenary lecture, "Research Challenges in Process Systems Engineering: Product and Process Design, Energy and Sustainability, Enterprise-wide Optimization," at the XII Interamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering, Buenos Aires, on October 3, 2006. He also visited Tsinghua University, Beijing, on September 4-8, 2006, where he gave one seminar and two lectures. Ignacio was also elected as Director of AIChE, and Vice-chair of the Chemical Engineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering. He also participated in the NSF workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for Chemical and Biological processes that took place in September 25-26. Steinar Hauan recently delivered departmental lectures at the University of Florida and at Penn State. The focus of both lectures were on design and operation of our BioMEMS sensor project. Erik Ydstie went to Burkina Fase on West Africa to teach Computer English for ESL students at the University of Ouagadougo. He also went to visit the village of Fasane in Burkina Faso. Here he experienced first hand the need for water and electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. He spent time inspecting local solar electricity generating facilities. Many small businesses are based on the idea of charging batteries for cell phones, small televisions, and lighting systems as shown on the photo. Erik also went to the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund advisory board meeting in Balitmore. About $21M was disbursed this year for fundamental research in the petroleum filed. He attended the Worcester Polytechnic advisory board meeting. Erik gave chemical engineering departmental seminars at University of California in Santa Barbara and Georgia Tech. He also gave a workshop lecture at an Industrial Workshop at Texas Tech on closed loop identification. He also delivered a six day workshop on robust process control at Emerson. Erik’s venture Industrial Learning Systems is the final stages of securing$500K, Round 1 VC funding for the development of adaptive model predictive control systems for chemical process control. The primary investor if Siemens TTB of Berkeley California. Beta tests will be carried out at Dow Chemical for propane and ethane cracking furnaces later this year and superheater control with Emerson Power and Water customers early next year. Erik took part in a campus discussion on entrepreneurship when the Kaufman foundation visited. Erik continued working on scale-up and designing with Alcoa for the 3MW test bed system for the carbothermic aluminum project. - Student News Congratulations to Shiva Kameswaran and Carl Laird for defending their PhDs this summer. Shiva also won the department’s Ken Meyer Award for the best PhD thesis and has joined United Technology Research Center. Carl has accepted an assistant professorship at Texas A&M and is currently doing a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Mike Bartkovsky, student of Steinar Hauan, defended his PhD thesis on BioMEMS sensor design in August and has just joined Bayer in Huston. Murni Ahmad, student of Steinar Hauan, defended her PhD thesis on design of protein separation systems in September and will return to her home country of Malaysia to take up a university teaching position. Nick Sawaya plans to defend his Ph.D. in November, 2006. He will be joining the optimization group of Kevin Furman at ExxonMobil Corporate Research. Priyesh Thakker completed his MS thesis with Erik Ydstie. The thesis was on the topic of Adaptive control with selective memory. Priyesh developed a new approach to adaptive predictive control and tested the method in simulation and pilot plant experiments. Michael Whartman worked with Erik Ydstie on optimal control of networked systems over the summer. Congratulations to Eduardo Dozal-Mejorada, student of Erik Ydstie, who received the Geoffery D. Parfitt Memorial Award at the CHEGSA Symposium, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri, student of Larry Biegler, who received a Symposium Award. Also, congratulations to Victor Zavala for successfully passing his PhD proposal and to Anshul Agarwal, Mohit Agrawal, Parag Jain and Fengqi You for successfully passing their PhD qualifier exams. Victor Zavala and Brian Baumrucker spent the summer at ExxonMobil Chemicals at Baytown, TX; Victor was working on NMPC applications with detailed process models while Brian was exploring and extending complementarity models for real-time optimization. Ramkumar Karuppiah went this summer to ExxonMobil, Corporate Research, and worked in the group of Kevin Furman developing MINLP scheduling models. Bora Tarhan spent two months in ExxonMobil, Upstream Research, working with Vikas Goel and Amr-El Bakry on the design and planning of offshore platforms. Muge Erdirik spent one month in Midland working with John Wassick developing planning and scheduling models for batch plants. Christy White went to FLUOR in Los Angeles to work on the scale up of the fluid bed reactor for making solar grade silicon. The models she has developed plays a critical role on the design of the commercial system which going to be built for REC late 2007. Wayo spent three months at Shell working distributed and decentralized MPC. - Visitors Professors Arturo Jimenez and Vicente Rico-Ramirez, both from Instituto de Celaya in Mexico, have joined the PSE group in order to spend their sabbatical leaves as Fulbright scholars. Both will be collaborating with Ignacio; Arturo in the area of energy integration, and Vicente in the area of stochastic programming. Gonzalo Guillen, graduate from Polytechnic University of Catalunya and recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, has joined Ignacio’s group as a postdoctoral fellow, and will be working in the areas of Enterprise-wide Optimization and Sustainability. Mariano Martin from the University of Salamanca, Spain, has also joined Ignacio’s group for a 3 month period and is working in the ethanol from corn project in collaboration with Cargill. Euclides Almeida Neto from PetroBras has joined Larry’s group for one year, and will be working on on-line dynamic optimization. Professor Jie Bao is visiting Erik Ydstie’s research group on his sabbatical leave from University of New South Wales in Sidney Australia. He is working on passivity based control of complex process networks. Professor Bjarne Foss visited Erik Ydstie’s research group to talk about research in the area of petroleum reservoir modeling and control in the Arctic. -Webpages. The following might be of interest to you: Virtual library on Process Systems Engineering: http://cepac.cheme.cmu.edu/pasilectures.htm You can access webpages of all PSE faculty in the Americas in: http://cepac.cheme.cmu.edu/country.htm Powerpoint slides of plenary lectures of the ESCAPE-16 Meeting: http://events.dechema.de/Download-page-113041.html Industrial Learning Systems can be found at http://www.ilsystems.net - San Francisco AIChE Annual Meeting. The following papers by CAPD faculty will be presented at that meeting: Interior-Point Decomposition Approaches for Parallel Solution of Large-Scale Nonlinear Parameter Estimation Problems, Carl D. Laird, Victor M. Zavala, and Lorenz T. Biegler A Fast and Efficient Computational Framework for Large-Scale Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Victor M. Zavala and Lorenz T. Biegler Full Cycle Optimization of Simulated Moving Bed Processes, Yoshiaki Kawajiri and Lorenz T. Biegler MPEC Formulations to Model Complementarities in RTO Problems, Brian T. Baumrucker, Lorenz T. Biegler A Theoretical and Computational Comparison between GDP Cuts, Disjunctive Cuts and Lift-and Project Cuts for Linear Generalized Disjunctive Programming, Nicolas W. Sawaya and Ignacio E. Grossmann A Multistage Stochastic MINLP Model for Exploration and Planning of Petroleum Fields under Uncertainty, Bora Tarhan and Ignacio E. Grossmann A Lagrangean Based Branch-and-Cut Technique for Global Optimization of MINLP Problems with Decomposable Structures, Ramkumar Karuppiah and Ignacio E. Grossmann Optimal Scheduling of Multistage Batch Plants with Sequence Dependent Changeovers: a Comparative Study, Pedro Castro, Ignacio E. Grossmann, and Augusto Q. Novais Modeling of Purchase and Sales Contracts in Supply Chain Optimization Minhwan Park, Fernando D. Mele, Sunwon Park, Ignacio E. Grossmann Optimal Scheduling of Multistage Batch Plants with Sequence Dependent Changeovers: a Comparative Study, Pedro Castro, Ignacio E. Grossmann, Augusto Q. Novais Optimal Integration of Planning and Scheduling for Parallel Multi-Product Batch Reactors, Muge Erdirik Dogan, Ignacio E. Grossmann, John Wassick A Superstructure Optimization Approach for the Design of Corn-Based Ethanol Plants, Andreas Peschel1, Ramkumar Karuppiah, Mariano Martín, Ignacio E. Grossmann, Luca Zullo, and Wade Martinson A Multidisciplinary Cyberinfrastructure Approach, Ignacio E. Grossmann Numerical Optimization of a Biochemical Sensor Array, Jane E. Valentine, Todd M. Przybycien, and Steinar Hauan The Automated Generation of Constrained Models from Feasibility Analysis for Reactive Distillation, Scott L. Turnberg and Steinar Hauan. Optimal Design and Layout of an Immunoassay on a Chip, Xiang He, Steinar Hauan Scale-up and Control of Fluidized Bed Production of Solar-Grade Silicon Christy M. White and Erik Ydstie Complex Supply Chain Networks, Kendell R. Jillson and B. Erik Ydstie Scale-up and Control of Fluidized Bed Production of Solar-Grade Silicon, Christy M. White, B. Erik Ydstie Optimal Control of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Eduardo J. Dozal-Mejorada and B. Erik Ydstie - Upcoming meetings INFORMS Annual Meeting 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, November 5, 2006 - November 8, 2006. http://www.informs.org/Conf/Pittsburgh06/ Annual AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2006. http://www.aiche.org/Conferences/AnnualMeeting/index.aspx The Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms, December 13-15, 2006, Veszprém, Hungary http://www.dcs.vein.hu/vocal/ ESCAPE-17, 27-30 May, 2007, Bucharest, Romania http://www.escape17.upb.ro/ Second International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO' 07) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 24-27, 2007 http://www.pi.ac.ae/ee/ICMSAO/Default.htm AIChE Spring National Meeting, April 22-26, 2007 Houston Hilton & George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX http://www.aiche.org/Conferences/SpringMeeting/index.aspx Conference on OR Practice, April 29-May 1, 2007 Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada. http://meetings.informs.org/Practice07/ IFAC Symposium DYCOPS-8, June 4-6, 2007 , Cancun, Mexico http://www.dycops2007.org/ Advances in Global Optimization: Methods and Applications, Royal Myconian Imperial Hotel, Myconos, Greece June 13-17, 2007 http://www.ise.ufl.edu/cao/ago2007/ EURO XXII - 22nd Conference of the Association of European Operational Research Societies Prague, Czech Republic, July 8-11, 2007, http://euro2007.vse.cz American Control Conference (ACC), New York, USA, July 11-13, 2007 http://a2c2.org/conferences/acc2007/ INFORMS International Puerto Rico, July 8-11, 2007 Westin Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico http://meetings.informs.org/PuertoRico2007/ Second Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT II), August 12-17, 2007, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, http://iccopt-mopta.mcmaster.ca/ 11th Conference on Stochastic Programming (SPXI) Vienna, Austria August 27-31, 2007, http://www.spxi.org/ European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE)), Sep 16-21, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.ecce6.kt.dtu.dk/ Annual AIChE Meeting, 2007 November 4-9, 2007, Salt Lake City, UT http://www.aiche.org/Conferences/AnnualMeeting/future.aspx INFORMS Annual Meeting 2007, November 4-7, 2007, Seattle, WA FOCAPO 2008 (Date and location to be announced)