Synthesis and Operability Strategies for Computer-Aided Modular Process Intensification

Professor Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos is the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and the Dow Chemical Chair Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (1991-2015) and the Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering (2002-2009). He holds a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University and he worked with Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam before joining Imperial. He has authored or co-authored over 500 major research publications in the areas of modelling, control and optimization of process, energy and systems engineering applications, 15 books and 3 patents. He is a Fellow of IChemE and AIChE, and the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering. In 2007, Prof. Pistikopoulos was a co-recipient of the prestigious MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of CAST/AIChE, while in 2020 he received the Sargent Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. In 2021, he received the AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award. He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in 2014 from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, and from the University of Pannonia in 2015. In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom. Dr. Yuhe Tian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at West Virginia University. Prior to joining WVU, she received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University under the supervision of Prof. Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos (2016-2021). She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University, China (2012-2016). Her research focuses on the development and application of multi-scale systems engineering tools for modular process intensification, clean energy innovation, systems integration, and sustainable supply chain optimization.

1. Introduction to process intensification
2. Towards computer-aided process intensification
3. Phenomena-based synthesis for process intensification
4. Process synthesis, optimization and intensification
5. Process synthesis, intensification and heat integration
6. Material selection, process synthesis and intensification
7. Operability and control challenges in process intensification
8. Steady-state and dynamic flexibility analysis
9. Inherent safety analysis
10. Advanced model-based control
11. Synthesis and optimization of operable process intensification systems
12. Identification of performance limits for olefin metathesis reactive separation process
13. Synthesis of ethanol-water extractive separation systems with ionic liquid solvents selection
14. Process design and intensification of an industrial dividing wall column for methyl methacrylate separation
15. Steady-state synthesis and design of methyl tert-butyl ether production process with safety and operability considerations
16. Simultaneous design and control of a methyl tert-butyl ether reactive distillation system
17. A framework for synthesis of operable and intensified systems