Interplant Resource Integration : Optimization and Allocation

Interplant Resource Integration: Optimization and Allocation presents an introduction to the planning and implementation methods for interplant resource integration. The analytic tools provided in this book can be used for the tasks of formulating mathematical programming model(s) to maximize the achievable overall savings and also for devising the "fair" distribution scheme(s) to allocate individual financial benefits among the participating plants.

• Offers tools for gaining economic benefit and environmental friendliness
• Presents methods for realistically feasible solutions
• Provides concrete mathematical modeling procedures
• Familiarizes readers with various network synthesis approaches and shows alternative viewpoints that can be adopted to model the interactions of participating members in an interplant resource integration scheme

Aimed at chemical engineers, process engineers, industrial chemists, mechanical engineers in the fields of chemical processing and plant engineering.

Chuei-Tin Chang received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in 1976 and 1982, respectively. He worked as a process engineer in FMC Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) from 1982 to 1985, and also as an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering in University of Nebraska (Lincoln) from 1985 to 1989. He later joined the faculty of Chemical Engineering Deparment of National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) in 1989, became a full professor in 1993, and recently received the Distinguished Professor Award (2008-2011). He was a visiting research scholar at Northwestern University (1992), Leihigh University (1998) and Georgia Institute of Technology (2006). He is a senior member of AIChE and TwIChE. His current research interests are mainly concerned with Process Systems Engineering (PSE), which include Process Integration, Process Safety Assessment and Fault Diagnosis, etc. He is author of 97 referreed papers and 76 conference papers (total number of citations: 1069; h-index: 15).

Cheng-Liang Chen is Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei. He received his B.S., M.S., and PhD in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University. He served as a Board Member, China Petroleum Company from 2008–2013), Board Member, China-American Petroleum Company (2013–2017), Director, Petrochemical Research Center, NTU (2010–2016), Debuty Executive Director, Energy Research Center, National Taiwan University (2011–2013), and Debuty Executive Director, National Science and Technology Program on Energy (2011–2013).

Jui-Yuan Lee is Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology. Dr. Lee received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in January 2011 and conducted postdoctoral research at NTU (March 2011–September 2013), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (October 2013–May 2014), and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (July–December 2014), before joining Taipei Tech in February 2015. His research centres on chemical process integration and optimisation, with particular research interests in various energy systems. He has published 36 referred journal papers, 47 conference papers, and coedited/co-authored 2 books. Dr Lee works closely with quite a few collaborators mainly in Malaysia, the Philippines, China, and South Africa.