10th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering - PSE2009

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