Design and Optimization in Process Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

At present, more and more emerging chemical conversion routes have been proposed, in order to pursue processes with better safety, operation efficiency, and economic potential with less environmental impact. Hence, techniques in the field of process systems engineering (PSE) have attracted wide attention. Among the major topics in this field, process design and optimization deals with the problem of performing overall mass and energy balance of any given process, providing the process concept, enhancing the process performance, and so on. It also helps to overcome the gap between lab-scale and plant-scale operation, as well as between theoretical and practical knowledge.

This Special Issue aims at collecting seminal, original papers in the field of process design and optimization. We welcome articles including but not limited to the following topics:

• Conceptual or rigorous simulation of novel processes;
• Optimization of processes (either single or multi-objective ones);
• Data-driven design and optimization;
• Techno-economic, environmental assessment, or life cycle analysis studies;
• Process safety studies;
• Process designs for circular economy

Dr. Bor-Yih Yu
Dr. Vincentius Surya Kurnia Adi
Dr. Chien-Yuan Su
Dr. Felicia Januarlia Novita
Guest Editors

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