Pareto-Navigation in Chemical Engineering

Design of hybrid distillation/melt crystallisation processes for separation of close boiling mixtures

“…If parameters of the cost functions change, a re-optimisation is necessary. An alternative to an optimisation approach based on a single cost function is the use of multi-objective optimisation, which has gained more importance in chemical engineering over the last several years [12][13][14][15]. The advantage of the multiobjective optimisation is that a set of solutions called Pareto front can be found in which no improvement in one objective can be reached without decreasing the performance of another objective.…”

Decision Support by Multicriteria Optimization in Process Development: An Integrated Approach for Robust Planning and Design of Plant Experiments

“…In both cases, these values are not known exactly, but rather within specific uncertainty ranges (we prefer using the term uncertainty range to confidence interval. Navigating the Pareto solutions then visualizes the trade-offs interactively to the planner (Asprion et al 2011). The impact of these ranges on the output functions can be estimated by sensitivity analysis (Saltelli et al 2008).…”