Sebastian Engell Livres

In this first book dedicated to the logistics of chemical plants and production processes, authors from academia and industry -- such as Bayer, Degussa, Merck -- provide an overview of the field, incorporating the knowledge and experience gathered over the last 10 years. In so doing, they describe the latest ideas on efficient design, illustrating when to produce which part of the equipment and with which resources, so as to optimize chemical plants for high capacity and flexibility. This book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art of the whole logistic chain of chemical production processes. Alongside the fundamentals, tools and algorithms, and integration issues, the book features five significant industrial case studies.

In 1995, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's largest public research funding organization, launched a priority program called Kondisk– Dynamics and Control of Systems with Mixed Continuous and Discrete Dynamics. This initiative typically spans six years and supports around twenty scientists, primarily young researchers pursuing doctoral degrees in engineering and computer science. A yearly competition across various disciplines determines funding for such programs, and the proposers successfully secured a slot that year. The program commenced in 1996 following an open call for proposals, with successful projects periodically presented and re-evaluated, allowing for new submissions. Throughout the focused research program, 25 projects were funded across 19 participating university institutes, often involving collaborations between engineering and computer science groups. The establishment of Kondisk was motivated by the need to address the complexities of modern technical systems, which consist of physical components exhibiting continuous dynamics alongside computerized control systems that respond to discrete events. These systems are implemented in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Distributed Control Systems (DCSs), and real-time computer systems.