The profitability of chemical processes strongly depends on their control systems. The design of a control system involves selection of controlled and manipulated variables, known as control structure selection. Systematic generation and screening alternative control structures requires optimization. However, the size of such an optimization problem is much larger when candidate controllers and...

In complex systems like Large-Scale Distributed Systems LSDSs the optimization of resource control is an open issue. The large number of resources and multicriteria optimization requirements make the optimization problem a complex one. The importance of resource control increases with the need of use for industrial process and manufacturing, being a key solution for QoS assuring. This paper pre...

an evolutionary structural optimization (eso) method is used for plastic design of frames. based on safe theorems some criteria are derived and made an effort to satisfy them during the optimization process. in this regard, equilibrium is checked and yield condition is gradually satisfied during the optimization process. in this method, the amount of used material and the stiffness for each ele...

We propose a data-driven outlier-insensitive adaptive robust optimization framework that leverages big data in industries. A Bayesian nonparametric model – the Dirichlet process mixture model – is adopted to extract the information embedded within uncertainty data via a variational inference algorithm. We then devise data-driven uncertainty sets for adaptive robust optimization. This Bayesian n...

Fluidized-bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) is a process subject to frequent variations in the operating conditions (including feed quality and feed rate). The production objectives usually are the maximization of LPG and gasoline production. This fact makes the FCC converter unit an excellent opportunity for real-time optimization. The present work aims to apply a dynamic optimization in an industr...

in this paper, an optimization method for both weight and displacement of composite blades is presented. in   order to hold issues such as aerodynamics and acoustic unchanged, airfoil shape during optimization process remained constant. to achieve the ultimate goal, only blade lamination was changed. in order to achieve minimum weight for each part of the structure, the lowest layers are foreca...

Preemptive scheduling in a two-stage supply chain to minimize the makespan Jun Pei, Wenjuan Fan, Panos M. Pardalos, Xinbao Liu, Boris Goldengorin & Shanlin Yang a School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, People's Republic of China b Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA c Department of C...

 Background: Bromide is found naturally in groundwater and surface water. The rapid growth of industrial activities, drainage of surface runoff, and use of methyl bromide in pesticides has increased bromide discharge to the environment. Disinfection of water-containing bromide causes the creation of additional products of organo-halogenated that are considered cancer-causing agents. In...

Maintenance management is one of the main focuses in industrial sector. Many maintenance functions with varieties optimization models have been proposed to aid maintenance management. However, there are limited models have been implemented in small and medium industries (SMIs). The data problems and the gap between theory and practice have always become a reason. In this paper, a new maintenanc...