Professor Ignacio E. Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University, presents this lecture on; “Computational Methods for Enterprise-wide Optimization of Process Industries”
Abstract: Due to increasing competitive pressures for reducing costs and inventories, Enterprise-wide Optimization (EWO) has become a major goal in the process industries. EWO involves optimizing the operations of supply, manufacturing and distribution activities of a company. The major operational activities include planning, scheduling, real-time optimization and inventory control. A major focus in EWO is the scheduling of the manufacturing facilities, as well as their modeling at the proper level of detail, often with nonlinear process models. In order to achieve EWO throughout the process industry we provide an overview of computational tools that allow the full integration and large-scale solution of the optimization models, as well as the incorporation of accurate models for the manufacturing facilities. These tools address the following areas: a) Modeling of production planning and scheduling models for the various components of the supply chain; b) Multi-scale optimization for coordinating the optimization of models over geographically distributed locations and for a time horizons spanning from weeks to years; c) Optimization under uncertainty to account for stochastic variations (e.g. demands, process yields, breakdowns); d) Algorithms and advanced computer architectures to support the three previous points. We present results on the several industrial projects that include simultaneous planning and scheduling of multisite batch reactors, global optimization of refinery MINLP scheduling models, multistage stochastic programming models for off-shore oil and gas exploration.
Biography: Ignacio E. Grossmann is the R. R. Dean University Professor of Chemical Engineering, and former Department Head at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his B.S. degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Imperial College in 1975 and 1977, respectively. After working at the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo in 1978, he joined Carnegie Mellon in 1979. He is currently director of the “Center for Advanced Process Decision-making,” an industrial consortium that involves about 20 petroleum, chemical, engineering and software companies.
Ignacio Grossmann is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and associate editor of AIChE Journal and member of editorial board of Computers and Chemical Engineering, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization and Engineering, and Latin American Applied Research. Major awards include the 1994 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of the CAST Division of AIChE, the 1997 William H. Walker Award of AIChE, in 2002 Honorary Doctor in Technology from Åbo Akademi in Finland, Fellow of INFORMS and AIChE, Top 15 Most Cited Author in Computer Science by ISI, and 2003 Computer Society Prize of INFORMS. He is recipient of the Best Technical Paper in 1988, 1996, 1998 and 2000 of Computers and Chemical Engineering. He was the 6th Robert Vaughn Lecturer at Caltech in 1986, the 18th Ashton Hall Cary Lecturer at Georgia Tech in 2002, the Kelley Lecturer at Purdue University in 2004, the Mary Upson Visiting Professor at Cornell in 1986-87, and a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Universidad de Cantabria in Spain in 2003-2004. He is a member and Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers where he is a fellow, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science where is also a fellow, and American Chemical Society. He was chair of the Technology Advisory Board of Engineering Sciences at Dow Chemical and has been consultant to ExxonMobil, Air Products and Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo.
The research interests of Ignacio Grossmann are in the areas of process synthesis, energy integration, process flexibility, planning and scheduling of batch and continuous processes, supply chain optimization, and mixed-integer and logic-based optimization. He has authored more than 300 papers, several monographs on design cases studies, and the textbook “Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design,” which he co-authored with Larry Biegler and Art Westerberg. He has also organized the Virtual Library on Process Systems Engineering: http://cepac.cheme.cmu.edu/pasilectures.htm.
Chair: Professor Stratos Pistikopoulos, CPSE
Afternoon Tea and Coffee will be served in CPSE Common Room, Top Floor Roderic Hill Building at the end of the seminar