Speaker: 

Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Professor Joe Qin

Institution: 

Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Time: 

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 11:00am

Location: 

MSTB 254

The chemical and refinery industries have been practicing optimization and control for at least half a century as an ultimate approach to improving operational efficiency. In this seminar we will discuss control and optimization problems formulated in these industrial problems. A review of current theory and practice will be covered briefly. The problem of constrained optimal control is formulated and solved with analytical solutions of the multi-parametric optimization.