A novel operational policy, the Process Intermediate Storage operational policy, is introduced and used to synthesize, schedule and design multipurpose batch plants. The model is based on the State Sequence Network and ...

Wastewater minimisation in chemical processes has always been the privilege of continuous rather that batch plants. However, this situation is steadily changing, since batch plants have a tendency to generate much more ...

Various environmental regulations imply that it is important to minimize the cost associated with treatment of different industrial wastes prior to its discharge to the environment. In this paper, an algebraic methodology, ...