“…Many automated network generation algorithms have been developed and described in the literature for different applications: hydrocarbon pyrolysis (Clymans and Froment, 1984;Hillewaert et al, 1988;Chinnick et al, 1988;Froment, 1991;Dente et al, 1992;DiMaio and Lignola,Dewachtere et al, 1999;Christensen et al, 1999;Moustafa and Froment, 2003;Froment, 2005;Quintana-Solórzano et al, 2007a, b), hydrocracking (Baltanas and Froment, 1985;Baltanas et al, 1989;Vynckier and Froment, 1991;Quann andJaffe, 1992, 1996;Quann, 1998;Martens and Froment, 1999;Mizan and Klein, 1999;Martens et al, 2000Martens et al, , 2001Thybaut and Marin, 2003;Laxmi Narasimhan et al, 2003, 2004Chavarría-Hernández et al, 2004Jaffe et al, 2005;Klein et al, 2006;Kumar and Froment, 2007a, b), hydrotreating (Hou and Klein, 1999;Klein et al, 2006), methanol-to-olefins Froment, 2001, 2004;Al Wahabi and Froment, 2004;Froment, 2005), FischerTropsch synthesis (Klinke and Broadbelt, 1999;Temkin et al, 2002;Lozano et al, 2006Lozano et al, , 2008, coke formation (Moustafa and Froment, 2003;Quintana-Solórzano et al, 2005), silicon hydride clustering …”