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George Stephanopoulos. Bieszczad, Jerry, 1971- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering 2005-05-19T14:24:36Z 2005-05-19T14:24:36Z 2000 2000 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16735 45145856 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277). This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Chemical process engineering activities such as design, optimization, analysis, control, scheduling, diagnosis, and training all rely on mathematical models for solution of some engineering problem. Likewise, most of the undergraduate chemical engineering curricula are model-based. However, the lack of formalization and systematization associated with model development leads most students and engineers to view modeling as an art, not as a science. Consequently, model development in practice is usually left to specialized modeling experts. This work seeks to address this issue through development of a framework that raises the level of model development from procedural computations and mathematical equations to the fundamental concepts of chemical engineering science. This framework, suitable for implementation in a computer-aided environment, encompasses a phenomena-based modeling language and logical operators. The modeling language, which represents chemical processes interms of interacting physicochemical phenomena, provides a high-level vocabulary for describing the topological and hierarchical structure of lumped or spatially distributed systems, mechanistic characterization of relevant phenomena (e.g., reactions, equilibria, heat and mass transport), and thermodynamic and physical characterization of process materials. Thelogical operators systematize the modeling process by explicitly capturing procedural and declarative aspects of the model ingactivity. (cont.) This enables a computer to provide assistance for analyzing and constructing phenomena-based models, detect model inconsistencies and incompleteness, and automatically derive and explain the resulting model equations from chemical engineering first principles. In order to provide an experimental apparatus suitable for evaluating this framework, the phenomena-based language and logical operators have been implemented in a computer-aided modeling environment, named MODEL.LA. MODEL.LA enables phenomena-based modeling of dynamic systems of arbitrary structure and spatial distribution, hierarchical levels of detail, and multicontext depictions. Additional components allow incorporation of thermodynamic and physical property data, integration of control structures, operational task scheduling, and external models,and assistance for specification and solution of the resulting mathematical model. Application of this environment to several modeling examples, as well as its classroom and industrial deployment, demonstrate the potential benefits of rapid, reliable, and documented chemical process modeling that may be realized from this high-level phenomena-based approach. by Jerry Bieszczad. 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The modeling language, which represents chemical processes interms of interacting physicochemical phenomena, provides a high-level vocabulary for describing the topological and hierarchical structure of lumped or spatially distributed systems, mechanistic characterization of relevant phenomena (e.g., reactions, equilibria, heat and mass transport), and thermodynamic and physical characterization of process materials. Thelogical operators systematize the modeling process by explicitly capturing procedural and declarative aspects of the model ingactivity.</Abstract> <Abstract>(cont.) This enables a computer to provide assistance for analyzing and constructing phenomena-based models, detect model inconsistencies and incompleteness, and automatically derive and explain the resulting model equations from chemical engineering first principles. 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