“MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: DEVELOPMENTS AND 

APPLICATIONS”

By Gade Pandu Rangaiah (Editor) and Adrián Bonilla-Petriciolet (Editor), 

Wiley (2013)

(http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111834166X.html)

 

We are pleased to announce the publication of the above book. There is a 

perpetual need to optimize the design and operating conditions of industrial 

process systems in order to improve their performance, energy efficiency, 

profitability, safety and reliability. However, with most chemical 

engineering application problems having many variables with complex inter-

relationships, meeting these optimization objectives can be challenging. 

This is where Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) is useful to find the 

optimal trade-offs among two or more conflicting objectives.

 

The above book provides an overview of the recent developments and 

applications of MOO for modeling, design and operation of chemical, 

petrochemical, pharmaceutical, energy and related processes. It then covers 

important theoretical and computational developments as well as specific 

applications such as metabolic reaction networks, chromatographic systems, 

CO2 emissions targeting for petroleum refining units, ecodesign of chemical 

processes, ethanol purification and cumene process design.

 

This book follows the earlier book entitled “Multi-Objective Optimization: 

Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering” edited by Gade Pandu 

Rangaiah, World Scientific (2009) 

(http://www.worldscibooks.com/engineering/7088.html).

These two books on Multi-Objective Optimization in Chemical Engineering are 

invaluable resources for researchers and graduate students in chemical 

engineering as well as for industrial practitioners and engineers involved 

in process design, modeling and optimization.