Process Optimization and Control

Dear Colleagues,

The term “process industry” refers to elementary raw material industries such as industries for petroleum, chemicals, steel, nonferrous metals, and building materials, which are fundamental for the national economy. Lately, due to limited resources and increasingly rigorous safety and environment constraints, the methodoly of process system engineering (PSE) has played an increasingly important role, especially in China, for process industries to achieve sustainable growth.Major attention has been attracted to the field of process optimization and control. Besides the theory and method development, numerous industrial implementations have been reported, showing that demand from the process industry leads the trend. However, a gap still exists between theory and practice in terms of overall application effectiveness. Therefore, this Special Issue will provide a good opportunity for researchers from China and all over the world to talk and move forward.
This Special Issue solicites high-quality papers from three key academic conferences held in China ananualy in this area, including the Chinese Process System Engineering Conference, the Chinese Process Control Conference, and the Chinese Intelligent Control and Automatic Instrument Conference. This Special Issue on “Process Optimization and Control” aims to curate novel advances in the development and application of optimization and control to address longstanding challenges in industrial process.  Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Industrial process management and decision systems;
• Integrated decision-making and control systems;
• Advanced control optimization technology;
• Artificial intelligence-driven optimization and control technology;
• Industrial big data and cloud computing;
• Safety monitoring and faulty detection systems;
• Industrial modeling and simualtion systems;
• Process instruments and smart devices;
• Smart manufaturing systems.

Prof. Dr. Xi Chen
Prof. Dr. Wenli Du
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Antonios Armaou
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xiang Li
Guest Editors

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