CSE 752
Optimization of Chemical Processes
2025-26
Topics
- Numerical techniques
- Achieving optimal performance
- Chemical process
- Topics in numerical linear algebra
- Optimality conditions
- Algorithms for unconstrained optimization
- Nonlinear equation systems
- Least-squares problems
- Linear programming
- Algorithms for constrained optimization
- Dynamic optimization
- Interior-point methods
- Mixed-integer programming
- Global optimization
Readings
- I - Optimization Biegler, L.T., Nonlinear Programming: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications to Chemical Processes, SIAM, 2010
- Chvatal, V., Linear Programming, Freeman, New York, 1983
- Edgar, T.F. and D.M. Himmelblau and L.S. Lasdon, Optimization of Chemical Processes, 2nd Edn., McGraw-Hill, 2001
- Floudas, C.A., Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization, Oxford University Press, 1995
- Griva, I., Nash, S.G., Sofer, A., Linear and Nonlinear Optimization, 2nd Edn., SIAM, 2009
- Grossmann, I.E., Advanced Optimization for Process Systems Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2021
- Nocedal, J. and S. J. Wright, Numerical Optimization, Springer, 1999
- Peressini, A.L., F.E. Sullivan and J.J. Uhl, The Mathematics of Nonlinear Programming, Springer-Verlag, 1988
- Ravindran, A., Ragsdell, K.M., Reklaitis, G.V., Engineering Optimization, 2nd Edn., Wiley, 2006
- Wright, S.J., Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods, SIAM, 1997.
- II – Numerical Methods Burden, R.L., Faires, J.D., Reynolds, A.C., Numerical Analysis, 2nd Edn., PWS Publishers
- Conte, S.D., and de Boor, C., Elementary Numerical Analysis, 3rd Edn., McGraw-Hill, 1980.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store (short title) ↗
- Campus Store reading list ↗Fall 2025
- Course outline / syllabus ↗2025-26