Practical Chemical Process Optimization

Ioannis K. Kookos is Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras. His research interests include Synthesis and optimization of biotechnological processes for the production of platform chemicals, modelling of mass transfer in SOFCs, plantwide process design and control structure selection, and synthesis, design and optimization of biofuel production.

• 1. Preliminary concepts and definitions.- 2. Multidimensional unconstrained optimization.- 3. Constrained optimization.- 4. Linear programming.- 5. Integer and Mixed Integer Programming Problems.- 6. Solving optimization problems in GAMS.- 7. Representative optimization problems in chemical engineering solved in GAMS.- Appendix A: Introduction to MATLAB.- Literature and Notes for Further Study.- Index.