Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Chemical and Process Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

The complexity of modern chemical processes requires the consideration of multiple criteria in the selection, design, and operation of systems. While financial viability remains crucial, other critical aspects include technical viability, which encompasses process maturity, safety, availability, and scalability, and social dimensions, such as acceptance by the workforce and local populations, along with environmental viability, assessed through life cycle assessment frameworks, adding layers of complexity to decision making. These multi-dimensional assessments, essential for evaluating different production and supply chain pathways for specific products or services, are well-suited to multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). Despite its growing application and significance in the field, MCDM has not yet been the topic of a Special Issue in chemical and process engineering journals.

This Special Issue on “Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Chemical and Process Engineering” focuses on new developments and applications of MCDM to processes and systems of interest to chemical and process engineers. The topics include but are not limited to the following:

• New or improved MCDM methods;
• MCDM applications in chemical processes;
• Development of MCDM software or tools;
• Sensitivity analysis (including rank reversal) of MCDM methods;
• MCDM used within single-objective optimization (SOO) or multi-objective optimization (MOO);
• Selection and design of novel chemicals and materials;
• Process selection, design, and operation with MCDM methods;
• Integration of MCDM with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML);
• MCDM for green and sustainable chemical processes.

To maximize impact, authors contributing to this Special Issue are invited to deposit their process models in an open access repository and/or provide them as Supplementary Materials. These may include contributions such as process simulation files, computer codes, spreadsheets, model files, optimization codes, or other relevant digital objects used for the studies reported in the articles, and they can be either commercial or open-source software.

Thank you for reading this proposal/invitation. We hope that you will consider contributing to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Gade Pandu Rangaiah
Dr. Andrew Hoadley
Dr. Zhiyuan Wang
Guest Editors

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