Supervisor: Prof. Ignacio E. Grossmann

Hosting for secondment: ESR-K: Hubert Hadera, ESR-L: Dragoljub Gajic

Cooperation: ABB-DE, TK-AST

 

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a global research university with more than 12,000 students, 92,000 alumni, and 5,000 faculty and staff. Based in Pittsburgh CMU has been a birthplace of innovation throughout its 112-year history. Today, CMU is a global leader bringing groundbreaking ideas to market and creating successful startup businesses. CMU's award-winning faculty members are renowned for working closely with students to solve major scientific, technological and societal challenges. CMU puts a strong emphasis on creating things—from art to robots.

 

One of the partner institutions within Energy-SmartOps project is CAPD - Center for Advanced Process Decision-making. CAPD is a Carnegie Mellon University Research Center engaged in Process Systems Engineering Research for the Process Industries.

 

Research goals of CAPD are to:

• Understand and aid complex design and operation issues faced by industry

• Develop and advance modeling and solution methods for process systems engineering

 

The key research areas of the CAPD's renowned faculty include topics such:

• Modeling and Optimization Algorithms

• Process Synthesis and Product Design

• Enterprise-wide Optimization and Process Operations

• Molecular Computing

 

The director of CAPD Prof. Ignacio E. Grossmann is serving as a supervisor within Energy-SmartOps.