Engineering Research Deployment Teaching Initiative: Tools for the Deployment Integrated Process Operations Research toChemical Engineering Curriculum and Industrial Practice

9309591 DOYLE计算机辅助过程操作管理包括过程监控、监管控制、数据协调、单元和工厂范围的优化、过程故障诊断、监督控制、计划和调度等任务。由于这些任务的相互依存关系，业务管理涉及以综合方式协调这些任务。执行这些不同任务的不同工具和技术的激增使系统实现和解决过程支离破碎，从而对问题集成造成了障碍。处理一体化需要仔细选择解决问题的范例、知识表达、搜索和推理技术，以便不给个别任务带来负担，同时提供一个统一的框架。在这项研究中，研究人员将开发一门关于计算机集成过程操作的新课程，该课程将讨论这些操作任务的性质、集成的特征、人工智能的使用、数学编程和非线性建模技术，这些技术对于实现这种自动化是必要的和不可避免的。本课程将把最先进的工具和技术和工业案例研究带到课堂上，教育和准备本科生和研究生，使他们了解化工过程工业中计算机集成制造的当前趋势。

9309591 Doyle Computer-aided process operations management includes tasks such as process monitoring, regulatory control, data reconciliation, unit and plant-wide optimization, process fault diagnosis, supervisory control, planning and scheduling. Due to the inter-dependencies of these tasks, operations management involves coordination of these tasks in an integrated manner. The proliferation of disparate tools and techniques to carry out these different tasks imposes barriers to problem integration by fragmenting the system implementation and the solution process. Dealing with integration requires a careful choice of problem- solving paradigms, knowledge representation, search and reasoning techniques so as not burden the individual tasks and at the same time providing a unified framework. In this research, the researchers will develop a new course on computer integrated process operations that will address the nature of these operational tasks, the character of integration, the use of artificial intelligence, math programming and nonlinear modeling techniques that are necessary and inevitable for achieving this automation. This course will bring state-of-the-art tools and techniques and industrial case studies to the class room to educate and prepare undergraduate and graduate students in current trends in computer-integrated manufacturing in the chemical process industries.