Area 1: Modeling, Supporting Methods and Tools
- Multi-scale modeling: molecules, continua, equipment, process, site
- Linking experiments to models
- Hybrid rigorous / data-driven models
- Rigorous modeling of process equipment
- Information Modeling
- Data Mining
- Large-scale optimization methods
- Global optimization methods
- Optimization under uncertainty
- Industrial applications and case studies
Area 2: Product and Process Design
- Particulate processing: formulation, grinding, agglomeration
- Integration along lifecycle: from product design to manufacturing; sustainability
- CFD - applications to increase productivity
- Sustainable and Environmentally conscious process design
- Design of water process networks
- Synthesis of complex separation systems
- Multi-scale design and modeling of new materials
- New strategies/methods applied to design management
- Industrial applications and case studies
Area 3: Operations and Control
- Data driven diagnosis and supervision
- Real-time optimization, planning and scheduling
- Model-based control of distributed systems: crystallization, polymerization, reactors, separation equipment
- Environmentally safe systems for material and product storage and transportation
- Zero effluent-emission-waste production: technologies and successful cases
- Integrated optimization of energy generation and consumption
- Development and application of soft sensors
- Industrial applications and case studies
Area 4: Non-traditional applications of process systems engineering
- Material and formulation design
- Process Intensification for sustainable development
- Carbon Sequestration - sustainability
- Sustainable Resources Systems
-- Renewable and environmentally safe sources of energy and raw material
-- Integration of renewable, biomass and energy technologies
-- Energy saving and pollution reduction
- Biological Systems / Biochemical and material processing
-- Drug delivery systems
-- Modeling: molecular, cells, organs
-- Data mining and pattern recognition
- Oil and gas processing
-- Design of offshore systems
-- Operation of oil and gas wells
-- Industrial applications and case studies
Area 5: Business decision support
- Life cycle
- Supply chain and logistics
- Enterprise-wide optimization
- Planning and scheduling of process networks
- Inventory Control
- Financial risk assessment
- Information and knowledge management
- Industrial applications and case studies
Area 6: Education in process systems engineering