The development of new chemical engineering design tools is essential for the implementation of the latest technology in the manufacture of chemical and other products. The focus of this paper is on process systems engineering (PSE) methods and tools, and especially on how such PSE methods and tools can be applied to speed up or support systematic bioprocess development at miniature scale. In t...

This paper focuses on the management of the requirements engineering process and on the contributions a process supporting environment (PSE) can provide to perform this task. We use the key practices defined by the capability maturity model for software (CMM), one of the most prominent software process improvement approaches, as a requirements management scenario. For each activity proposed by ...

PrODHyS is a general object-oriented environment which provides common and reusable components designed for the development and the management of dynamic simulation of systems engineering. Its major characteristic is its ability to simulate processes described by a hybrid model. In this framework, this paper focuses on the "Object Differential Petri Net" (ODPN) formalism integrated within PrODH...

Abstract In the midst of a climate crisis, alternative and low-carbon energy resources must be put to scale in order achieve carbon emission reductions coming decades. this respect, hydrogen has gained attention as an carrier. Hydrogen can produced from methods that are commonly classified by range colours. However, each source its own challenges terms security, equity, environmental sustainabi...

The manufacture of integrated circuits is driven by a demand for faster calculation capabilities and lower costs, which will require the development of a new generation of manufacturing tools to increase yield productivity, spearheaded by improved measurement devices and advanced process control. The objectives of this paper are review of the challenges in two main PSE areas: process monitoring...

For the distributed control of an electricity infrastructure incorporating clusters of residential combined heat and power units (micro-CHP or μCHP) a Multi-Agent System approach is considered. The network formed by households generating electricity with μCHP units and the facilitating energy supplier can be regarded as an electricity production system, analogous to a (flexible) manufacturing s...

System engineering is one of the most powerful tools for comprehensive project management and control. This tool emphasized the life cycle of the projects, manages every single activity and helps manage the main elements of the project through a set of management and engineering processes. The goal of the current study is to use a system engineering approach in design phase in order or to meet ...

This review paper presents an overview of the current state of the art in Problem Solving Environments (PSE). PSE provides integrated human-friendly innovative computational services and facilities for easy incorporation of novel solution methods to solve a target class of problems. PSE is an innovative concept to enrich our e-Science, e-Life, e-Engineering, e-Production, e-Commerce, eHome, etc...

Flexibility is an important performance indicator of any engineered system, yet a term often vaguely defined in the infrastructure domain. We have identified that though infrastructures often have more complex external interactions than process systems; infrastructure flexibility could still be dealt with in the existing process systems engineering (PSE) framework if a proper conceptual definit...