R. Lakshmanan

TL;DR: The structure and implementational features of the DESIGN-KIT, a software support environment developed to aid process engineering activities such as: synthesis of process flowsheets, configuration of control loops for complete plants, planning and scheduling of plant-wide operations and operational analysis are outlined.

TL;DR: It is shown that domain-independent planning methodologies using the functional operators required for the synthesis of operating procedures are computationally intractable, and justifies the adoption of a domain-specific approach to the planning of process operations.

TL;DR: The important algorithms used in the various stages of planning are presented, and the properties of these algorithms, in terms of their correctness and completeness, are stated and proved.

TL;DR: A nonlinear planning methodology for handling qualitative mixing constraints is presented, intended to account for operational specifications prohibiting the mixing of two or more chemical species which form undesirable or potentially dangerous mixtures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the methodological and implementational aspects of an intelligent system which is being developed for the planning of plant-side process operations such as start-up, response to faults, optimization, etc.