Welcome to our website! 

Research in our group is in the process systems engineering area.  We bring together
modeling, analysis and optimization to design clean and sustainable processes. In particular, we have experience in processes for the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals, energy storage of
renewable non-programmable sources in batteries and chemicals (green hydrogen), carbon capture and circular economy (plastics and minerals from electronic waste).

 You can learn about Research Areas, find our Publications and meet the Members of the Group. Also, explore some group pictures and videos. 

News

2024

• Chris presents at Foundations of Computer Aided Process Design (FOCAPD): "Design and Optimization of Processes for Recovering Rare Earth Elements from End-of-Life Hard Disk Drives"
• Sampriti presents at AIChE Annual Meeting: "Leveraging Hourly Variations in Electricity Pricing for Optimal Retrofit Electrification of an Oil Refinery"
• Daniel presents at AIChE Annual Meeting: "A System-Dynamics Based Approach for Modeling Circular Economy Networks for Plastic Recycling"
• Andrés and Robert join the group! 

2023

•  Abdul presents at AIChE Annual Meeting: "Design and Optimization of Circular Economy Networks: Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate As a Case Study"
• Sampriti presents at AIChE Annual Meeting: "Optimal Flowsheets for Electrification of Oil Refineries through Superstructure Optimization"
• Sauda and Daniel join the group!

2022

• Abdul, Sampriti, and Chris join the group!
• Jimena successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis "Algoritmos evolutivos para el aprendizaje de modelos en la industria de proceso" ('' Evolutionary algorithms for model learning in the process industry"). Congratulations Jimena!

• Ana is invited to give a seminar at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Kansas
  University. "Process Systems Engineering for transitioning to low carbon economies"
• Mariana successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis "Diseño y Optimización de Sistemas de almacenamiento de Energía Renovable"(''Design and Optimization of Systems for Storage of Renewable Energy" ). Congratulations Mariana!

• Ana is invited to present at the 4th Computer Engineering Forum organized by the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. "Perspectives on Net Zero Carbon Processes"
• Jimena presents at PSE 2022: “A multi-output machine learning approach for surrogate modeling generation in process engineering”

• José presents at ESCAPE 2022: “A data driven model for prediction of adsorption energies on
  metallic surfaces”
• Ana is invited to present at National Academy of Engineering-Uruguay: ``Hidrógeno en Uruguay: Aportes desde la academia”.
• New paper published at ChERD: “Coupling time varying power sources to production of green-hydrogen: a superstructure based approach for technology selection and optimal design”
• New paper published at Comp. & Chem. Eng.: “Development of a Machine Learning-based
  Soft Sensor for an Oil Refinery’s Distillation Column”
• Ana joins CMU!