FREE SOFTWARE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
The programs listed below are freely available for educational purposes. These programs were developed and tested as part of our research studies. No warranty is implied or given for these programs and/or results from them.
Brief guidelines on using the program are provided along with it. However, we will not be able to provide any further guidance on their use. Your suggestions on the programs, if any, are most welcome.
Optimisation Programs
Hidden Optimisation Program
Selection Methods Program Version 2
This program has many weighting and selection methods for ranking non-dominated (Pareto-optimal) solutions obtained by multi-objective optimization. For more details, see (a) Wang Z., Parhi S.S., Rangaiah G.P. and Jana A.K., Analysis of Weighting and Selection Methods for Pareto-optimal Solutions of Multi-Objective Optimization in Chemical Engineering Applications, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, in press (2020) and (b) Wang Z. and Rangaiah G.P., Application and Analysis of Methods for Selecting an Optimal Solution from the Pareto-Optimal Front obtained by Multi-Objective Optimization, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 56, 560-574 (2017).
EMOO Version 4
Excel-based Multi-Objective Optimization program (in Excel and VBA) based on the elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm. For more details, see Sharma, Rangaiah and Cheah, Multi-objective optimization using MS Excel with an application to design of a falling-film evaporator system, Food and Bioproducts Processing, 90(2), 123-134 (2011).
I-MODE Version 2
Excel-based Multi-Objective Optimization program (in Excel and VBA) based on integrated/improved multi-objective differential evolution. For more details, see Sharma and Rangaiah, An improved multi-objective differential evolution with a termination criterion for optimizing chemical processes, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 56, 155-173 (2013).
PM Calculations
This MS Excel program computes performance metrics (namely, generational distance, inverse generational distance, convergence metric and spread) of a given set of non-dominated solutions. It requires true Pareto-optimal front. For more details, see Sharma S., Rangaiah G. P. and Marechal F. (2017), Multi-objective Optimization Programs and Their Application to Amine Absorption Process Design for Natural Gas Sweetening, In Rangaiah G. P. (editor), Multi-objective Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering (2nd Ed.), World Scientific, Singapore.
NDS Calculations
This MS Excel program performs sorting of given solutions to find the set of non-dominated solutions. For more details, see Sharma S., Rangaiah G. P. and Marechal F. (2017), Multi-objective Optimization Programs and Their Application to Amine Absorption Process Design for Natural Gas Sweetening, In Rangaiah G. P. (editor), Multi-objective Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering (2nd Ed.), World Scientific, Singapore.
PBBPSO
Novel Bare-Bones Particle Swarm Optimization (in Excel and VBA) for global optimization. For more details, see Zhang, Kennedy, Rangaiah and Bonilla-Petriciolet, Novel bare-bones particle swarm optimization and its performance for modelling vapour–liquid equilibrium data, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 301, 33-45 (2011).
DETL-E and DETL-G
Two versions of Differential Evolution with Tabu List (in FORTRAN) for global optimization. For more details, see Chapter 14 in Rangaiah, Stochastic Global Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering, World Scientific (2010).
Capital Cost Programs and Simulation Files
Hidden Simulation Program
CCEP
Capital Cost Estimation Program (in Excel and VBA) using the cost correlations in Seider, Seader and Widagdo, Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis and Evaluation, Wiley (2010). For more details, see Feng and Rangaiah, Evaluating Capital Cost Estimation Programs, Chemical Engineering, August (2011).
DFP
Detailed Factorial Program for capital cost estimation (in Excel and VBA) using the cost correlations in Sinnott and Towler, Chemical Engineering Design, Butterworth (2009). For more details, see Feng and Rangaiah, Evaluating Capital Cost Estimation Programs, Chemical Engineering, August (2011).
Styrene–Steady State Base Case
Aspen HYSYS steady-state simulation file for the styrene monomer plant. For more details, see Vasudevan, Rangaiah, Konda and Tay, Application and Evaluation of Three Methodologies for Plant-Wide Control of the Styrene Monomer Plant. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 48, 10941-10961 (2009).
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