Process Systems Engineering should contribute to synthesizing any size of system related to chemical engineering. The word of "Synthesis" is commonly used to mean planning, design, operation and control which are kinds of chemical engineering decisions.
-Takamatsu (1983)
Some formulate their synthesis, design and/or control problem, or some useful simplification of it, in precise mathematical terms, and then seek to exploit the mathematical structure to obtain an effective algorithm, while others seek insight on the problem structure from physical intuition.
- Sargent (1983)
We aim to develop theory, models and solution methods for problems in the process systems engineering domain. Our goal is to formulate efficient mathematical programming approaches to effectively represent the decision support systems involved in a chemical process. Our work had direct applications to the cryogenic air separation industry, urban water distribution network, roadways, maritime transportation sectors, and renewable energy generation and storage systems.Â