Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) process is a vital unit to produce gasoline. In this research, a feed forward ANN model was developed and trained with industrial data to investigate the effect of operating variables containing reactor temperature feed flow rate, the temperature of the top of the main column and the temperature of the bottom of the debutanizer tower on quality and quantity of...

Software architecture is the process of planning and designing a large-scale software, and a fundamental industrial discipline within the field of software engineering. The current body of knowledge in software architecture is a mixture of personal experience and precise methods. In this paper we move a step towards the formalization of this discipline by describing some optimization problems t...

 Contribute to establish best practice for site characterization, process optimization, monitoring and verification and risk assessment for geologic storage of CO2.  Increase public acceptance and awareness of CCS.  Expand economic/ infrastructure scenarios for the whole CCS value chain.  Advance the science and expand the potential scope of implementation of CCS technologies through intern...

This paper presents an ant colony optimization metaheuristic for the solution of an industrial scheduling problem in an aluminum casting center. We present an efficient representation of a continuous horizontal casting process which takes account of a number of objectives that are important to the scheduler. We have incorporated the methods proposed in software that has been implemented in the ...

In the context of a bacterial assisted leaching system, understanding the kinetics of microbial oxidation is essential to explore alternatives for process optimization. On a laboratory scale, there are empirical-analytic models that fit well to the dynamic of bacterial populations. However, at industrial level, the bioleaching process complexity together with the limited understanding of the re...

This paper proposes that industrial waste be regarded, in a business economic sense, as having the same basic status as regular products. A basic mathematical expression for assigning industrial costs to waste is presented. The expression can be employed in conjunction with cost-benefit analysis for estimating the “true” internal costs of industrial waste. In two case studies presented, industr...