TWCCC Spring 2024 Meeting - In Person

University of Texas at Austin

Peter O’Donnell Building (POB) room 6.304

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Detailed Program (All Times Central)

Monday February 12th, 2024

1:00 - 1:10   Welcome and Introduction

1:10 - 2:50  Supply Chains and Sustainability

1:10 - 1:30 - Sunwoo Kim (Lee group) - Green hydrogen supply chain design and evaluation

1:30 - 2:00 - Styliana Avraamidou - Supply chain optimization under circular economy considerations

2:00 - 2:20 - Sophia B Shi (Baldea group) - Equation-oriented modeling and optimization for hydrogen infrastructure

2:20 - 2:50 - Victor Zavala - Systems engineering approaches for scalable plastic waste management

2:50 - 3:05  Break

3:05 - 4:15 Industrial Decarbonization

3:05 - 3:35 - Jay Lee - General approach of using reinforcement learning on multi-stage, multi-scale stochastic planning of C2X technology deployment under techno-economic uncertainty

3:35 - 3:55 - Adhika Retnanto (Baldea group) - Carbon capture and conversion - ethylene and methanol co-production

3:55 - 4:15 - Jihun Jeong (Baldea group) -  Reformer modeling for operational optimization in direct reduced iron production

4:15 - 4:30 Break

4:30 - 6:00 Poster Session

6:30 - Dinner / County Line

Tuesday February 13th, 2024

8:00 - 8:45 - PI Meeting/Breakfast

8:45 - 9:45 - Manufacturing and the Power Grid

8:45 - 9:05 - Xin Tang (Baldea group) - Electricity demand bidding and its grid-scale implementation

9:05 - 9:25 - Jong Hyun (Ethan) Rho (Baldea group) -  Process structures, dynamics, design and control for electric process heating

9:25 - 9:45 - Sam Mercer (Baldea group) - Electrified distillation with fast startup

9:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 11:50 - Tools and Techniques for Control and Optimization 

10:00 - 10:20 - Shashank Venkatesan (Baldea group) -  Decomposition techniques for optimization of supply chains of perishable products

10:20 - 10:40 - Leonardo Gonzalez (Zavala group) - New paradigms for Bayesian optimization and closed-loop experimental design

10:40 - 11:00 - Steven Kuntz (Rawlings group) - Maximum likelihood identification for uncontrollable stochastic linear, time-invariant systems

11:00 - 11:30 - Jim Rawlings - Data completed nonlinear process models for optimization and control

11:30 - 11:50 - Jorge Martorell (Baldea group) - Equation-oriented modeling of amine-based carbon capture

11:50-12:50  Lunch

12:50-1:50  Power Systems Contributions to Process Systems Engineering

12:50 - 1:10 - Javiera Vergara (Avraamidou group) - An optimization-based framework for wind farm layout design considering multi-directional wake effect

1:10 - 1:30 - Joshua E Hammond (Baldea group) - Forecasting solar power generation under data transmission constraints

1:30 - 1:50 - David Cole (Zavala group) - Graph-based modeling of hierarchical decision making architectures

1:50 - Adjourn