Commemorative Issue to Celebrate the Life and Work of Prof. Roger W.H. Sargent

• Other Authors: Gani, Rafiqul (Editor), Cameron, Ian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; input-output model; fuzzy optimization; process synthesis; preliminary stage design; process systems engineering; energy systems engineering; process design; optimization; nonlinear programming; process monitoring; nonlinear principal component analysis; parallel neural networks; autoassociative neural network; big data; process scheduling; process system engineering; mixed-integer programming; scheduling; process control; integration; distribution; planning; oil supply chain; robust optimization; uncertainty; bio-jet diesel; co-hydrotreating; hydrodesulphurisation; hydrodeoxigenation; reactive distillation; coproduction; Lurgi syngas; cryogenic separation; methanol synthesis; LNG; symmetry; quadratic optimization; quadratically-constrained quadratic optimization; process modeling; mathematical programming; MINLP; generalized disjunctive programming; design; higher education; curricula; visualization; n/a
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This book celebrates the life, work and influence of Professor Roger W.H. Sargent of Imperial College London. It does so through a range of original contributions that span the wide academic and industry interests of Professor Sargent. Roger Sargent passed away in late 2018, but his legacy lives on through his enormous academic tree, which traces to the early 1960s. That huge body of work has also had significant impacts on industrial practices. Roger was regarded as "the father of Process Systems Engineering (PSE)". This area of Chemical Engineering continues to influence the modelling, design, control, optimization and integrated performance of industrial and related processes. This book highlights some of those impacts and the ongoing importance of PSE in helping to solve some of the grand challenges of our time.