Principal Investigator Gregory McRae
Co-investigators Paul Barton , George Stephanopoulos
Project Website http://web.mit.edu/cheme/research/areas/systems.html
Process design is an imaginative activity, an artful blend of intuition and analysis. Design is aided by mathematical tools that simulate the behavior of the process and seek optimum operating conditions. Effective use of simulation and optimization tools allows unexpected pathways to be explored, dangerous operating regions to be identified, and transient and accident conditions to be tested. The end result is improved economy, reliability, and safety.