แบบจําลองทางคณิตศาสตร์ของกระบวนการทางวิศวกรรมเคมี เทคนิคการแก้ปัญหาและพลศาสตร์ของระบบ หลักการควบคุมแบบย้อนกลับ การวิเคราะห์ เสถียรภาพของระบบ การออกแบบระบบควบคุมและตอบสนองความถี่ และเทคนิคการควบคุมขั้นสูง
A three modules course comprises of reactor scale-up, multiphase reactor modeling, and process optimization. Introduction to chemical reactor scale-up and method, dimensional analysis, geometric similarity, isothermal ideal reactor, non-isothermal reactor, mixing in reactor scale-up, and rate data development. Mathematical modeling of multiphase reactor, dispersion model, packed bed, fluidized bed, and trickle bed reactors. Introduction to numerical methods for continuous optimization for applications in chemical processes, focusing on practical methods, derivative-based methods for constrained and unconstrained multivariate optimization, root-finding, the graphical optimization and parameter estimation.
Optimization problems arise in multiple areas of science and engineering. The problems of optimizations of chemical processes especially the petrochemical plants are intensively focused due to the operating and production costs. This course introduces numerical methods for continuous optimization, focusing on practical methods. The course will cover derivative-based methods for constrained and unconstrained multivariate optimization, including line-search and trust-region strategies; conjugate-gradient, Newton and quasi-Newton methods; linear programming (simplex and interior-point methods); quadratic programming; penalty, barrier and augmented Lagrangian methods; and sequential quadratic programming.