(136d) Extending the Scope of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Techniques to Black-Box Systems
AIChE Annual Meeting
2014
2014 AIChE Annual Meeting
Computing and Systems Technology Division
In Honor of Ignacio Grossmann's 65th Birthday I
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 1:45pm to 2:10pm
First introduced in process systems engineering by Ignacio Grossmann in the late 70s, algebraic MINLP approaches are now a mainstream approach for many problems in process synthesis and process operations. In order to extend the scope and applicability of MINLP to simulation-based and experiment-based optimization, we have developed methodology to solve the following key problems:
- Converting data and simulations to surrogate models that are accurate and as simple as possible
- Exploitation of theoretical understanding in the building of empirical models
- Discovery of highly nonlinear relationships that are hidden in data
This talk will discuss the above methodologies and their computational implementation in our ALAMO software.