The old industrial area in the years of development remain some problems to be solved at the same time, combined with years of accumulation of environmental problems is very outstanding, leading to the sustainable development ability is weak, etc. Therefore, optimize the industrial structure of the old industrial area is necessary. This chapter through the analysis of the influencing factors of...

8 This paper presents a systems analysis perspective that extends the traditional process design 9 framework to green process design and industrial ecology leading to sustainability. For green process 10 design this involves starting the design decisions as early as chemical and material selection stage on 11 one end, and managing and planning decisions at the other end. However, uncertainties ...

This study suggests an optimization method for the life cycle cost (LCC) in an economic feasibility analysis when applying energy saving techniques in the early design stage of a building. Literature and previous studies were reviewed to select appropriate optimization and LCC analysis techniques. The energy simulation (Energy Plus) and computational program (MATLAB) were linked to provide an a...

locating landfills in urban areas is one of the most important issues in urban planning because of the effect on economy, ecology, and environment, therefore the right management and principled landfilling of solid waste is the major concern all over the world especially in the developed countries. in locating landfills, different criteria should be considered. in the present study, locating si...

Finding optimal operating conditions fast for process systems is a key competitive factor in fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industrial sectors to increase the value added in many stages of a product/process lifecycle. To deal successfully with noise and bias in experimental optimization a statistical characterization of a local optimum that is more amenable for process outputs rather than nu...

In this paper a new fuzzy based control concept for severely disturbed industrial processes with large deadtimes is presented which is characterized by a combination of fuzzy adaptive controllers with a physically based conventional predictive control concept. It has been successfully applied to a complex rheological glass manufacturing process. Practical experiences with the control design, op...

Economic benefit of an industrial company depends on forethought deployment of an industrial production system. Configuration of the robotic system affects the whole production process, and selection of inappropriate option can lead to financial losses of the company. The author proposes a formal procedure for finding an optimal specification of a heterogeneous multi-robot system. The paper pre...

Nonlinear experimental design leads to a challenging class of optimization problems which occur in the procedure of the validation of process models. This paper discusses the formulation of such problems for a general class of underlying process models, presents numerical methods for the solution and shows their successful application to industrial processes.