PSE’09 - 10th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering


Plenary Speakers

Opening Ceremony:	Gintaras Reklaitis Purdue University, USA *Process Systems Engineering: Accomplishments and Opportunities*

	Lincoln Moro PETROBRAS, Brazil *Optimization in the Petroleum Refining industry – the Virtual Refinery*

Gabriela Henning INTEC, Argentina *Production Scheduling in the Process Industries: Current trends, emerging challenges and opportunities* Iftekhar A. Karimi National University of Singapore, Singapore *Chemical Logistics – Going Beyond Intra-Plant Excellence* Ignacio E. Grossmann Carnegie-Mellon University, USA *Research Challenges in Planning and Scheduling for Enterprise-wide Optimization of Process Industries* José Carlos Pinto COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nonlinear Dynamic Data Reconciliation in Real Time in Actual Processes Lorenz T. Biegler Carnegie-Mellon University, USA *Technology Advances for Dynamic Real-Time Optimization* Rafiqul Gani Technical University of Denmark, Denmark *Modelling for PSE and Product-Process Design* Roberto de Campos Giordano Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil *WebLabs Dilemma in Chemical Engineering Teaching: Hindering or Promoting Creativity?* Wolfgang Marquardt RWTH Aachen University, Germany *Systems Problems in Biorenewables Processing*


Closing Ceremony:	Panel Discussion
	Chair: Lorenz T. Biegler Carnegie-Mellon University, USA

Keynote Speakers

Ana Barbosa-Povoa Instituto Superior Tecnico, UTL, Portugal *Sustainable Supply Chains: Key Challenges* Andreas Linninger University of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Modeling and design of distributed systems; methods and algorithms* Carlos Ruiz Soteica Ideas & Technology, Argentina Real Time Industrial Process Systems: Experiences from the Field Christos Maravelias University of Wisconsin, USA Integration of Production Planning and Scheduling Darci Odloak University of São Paulo, Brazil Robust Integration of RTO and MPC En Sup Yoon Seoul National University, Korea A Review of Sustainable Energy – Recent Development and Future Prospects of Dimethyl Ether (DME) George Stephanopoulos Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Process Systems Engineering: From Solvay to the 21st Century. A History of Development, Successes and Prospects for the Future Guenter Wozny Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany *The Significance of Experiments on PSE* Jean Marc Le Lann LGC-ENSIACET-INPT, France Novel Approaches in the Management of Innovation and in Formulation of Innovative Design for PSE John Woodley Technical University of Denmark, Denmark New Opportunities for Process Systems Engineering in Industrial Biotechnology John Siirola Sandia National Laboratories, USA Current Trends in Parallel Computation and the Implications for Modeling and Optimization José Antonio Caballero Suárez University of Alicante, Spain Thermally Coupled Distillation Luís Cláudio O. Lopes Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil Hybrid System Descriptions for Chemical Engineering Processes Luis Puigjaner Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain *Expanding the Manufacturing Horizon: Solving the Integration Paradox* Marcus Vinicius de O. Magalhães PETROBRAS, Brazil *Integrating Refining to Petrochemical* Marianthi Ierapetritou Rutgers University, USA Integration of Planning and Scheduling and Consideration of Uncertainty in Process Operations Mario Cesar M. de Campos PETROBRAS, Brazil *Challenges with Advanced Control Technologies* Mario Richard Eden Auburn University, USA Incorporating Molecular Signature Descriptors in Reverse Problem Formulations Paul Barton MIT, USA Energy Systems Engineering Peter Crafts Astra Zeneca, UK An Industrial Perspective on Pharmaceutical PSE Petr Stehlik Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Waste-to-Energy Systems as Examples of Efficient Process Systems Engineering Approach Rakesh Agrawal Purdue University, USA *Energy Saving Opportunities in Distillation: Identification of Useful Configurations* Reinaldo Giudici University of São Paulo, Brazil *On the use of PSE tools for solving problems in the field of Polymerization Reaction Engineering. A personal overview.* Rubens Maciel Filho University of Campinas, Brazil *Integrated Computational Tools for Bio-fabrication* Sebastian Engell Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Online optimizing control: The link between plant economics and process control Venkat Venkatasubramanian Purdue University, USA *Discovery Informatics in Product Design*