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SUMMARY:Modeling and optimization in Process Engineering
DTSTART:20110628T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Flurin Hänseler\nAs a Process Engineering student  I am highl
 y interested in methodologies for improving the operation of a technical p
 rocess. Such techniques typically involve the design of a process model  d
 etailed simulations as well as the development of control systems leading 
 to optimum plant operation. Many times the skills and techniques used by p
 rocess engineers overlap those applied and developed in operations researc
 h. In this seminar  I would like to talk about a chemical transport proces
 s I was involved during an internship and about a model on which I am curr
 ently working in the framework of my Master thesis. The goal of the former
  project was to optimize an industrial plant with respect to several crite
 ria by employing a purely statistical analysis\; the aim of my current wor
 k is to analyze a micro reaction using a physical (non-parametric) model a
 nd subsequently to optimize the reaction yield. I will keep my focus on th
 e philosophy of process engineering which can be appreciated without an en
 gineering background.\nBio\n\nFlurin Hänseler is a MSc candidate in Proce
 ss Engineering at ETH Zürich  from which he holds a Bachelor in Mechanica
 l Engineering. He is currently conducting his Master thesis at MIT's Depar
 tment of Chemical Engineering  for which he receives financial support fro
 m the Ernest Solvay Foundation. He has been a member of the Swiss Study Fo
 undation since 2008\; during his studies he concentrated on modeling and o
 ptimization of both technical and non-technical systems.
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