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Preface to the Special Issue Honoring Warren Seider This special issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research is in honor of Warren D. Seider, who has been the “pathfinder” for the computer-aided process design community for the last 40 years. Warren has devoted his entire academic career to advancing the art and science of computing in chemical engineering. His contributions cover every facet, including research, education, leadership, and service. It is a distinct pleasure for me to provide this preface as I join the many friends, colleagues, and former students from all over the world to celebrate Warren’s life and his contributions to the practice of chemical engineering and to chemical engineering education. Warren Seider received his chemical engineering degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1962, and went onto graduate school at the University of Michigan, where he worked with Prof. Stuart W. Churchill. His experiences at Michigan were formative and important; apart from his research activities, he became interested in the potential for computer applications in chemical engineering analysis and synthesis through his * To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: +972-48292006. Fax: +972-4-8295672. E-mail address: dlewin@ tx.technion.ac.il. Photograph credit: Alex Lowy/www.Lowyphoto.com.
contacts with Professor James Wilkes and Professor Brice Carnahan. It was also at Michigan that he met, and married, his wife Diane. Since then, Diane has been at his side, giving her love and support, while pursuing her own career. After earning his Ph.D. at Michigan in 1966, he joined the chemical engineering faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Initially, his research focused on the development of and experimentation with new computing architectures for process simulation. After he and Larry Evans obtained funding for the Aspen Project, Warren’s research focused on multiphase reaction equilibrium, with new algorithms to minimize the Gibbs free energy, and analysis of free-radical chemical reaction systems. This led to advances in heterogeneous azeotropic distillation and supercritical extraction. Gradually, he and his students began to study dynamics and control, often focusing on the interface between design and control. This led to an application of distributed control in the Czochralski crystallization of silicon, and modeling with qualitative differential equations for the verification of the performance of polymerization reactor controllers. In parallel, new algorithms were developed for heat and power integration, and homotopy-continuation was applied to locate all of the minima of the tangent-plane distance function associated with multiphase equilibria. In more recent work,
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Warren and his students have (a) studied the benefits of semicontinuous processing, (b) contributed to the development of analytical geometric controllers, (c) developed new methods for the design of inherently safe processes, (d) applied massintegration techniques for minimizing freshwater consumption in water networks, and (e) explored techniques for multiscale modeling in the control of crystallization processes. His record of leadership is unsurpassed. He was instrumental in founding the CAST Division of the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and served as its Chair. He was the key founder of the CACHE Corporation and served as its first President. He took the lead in organizing the first International Conference of Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design and served as Co-Chair. He was Director of the AIChE from 1984 to 1986. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Computers and Chemical Engineering and Computer Applications in Engineering Education, and he also served a term on the editorial board of this journal. His contributions to education include one of the first computer-based textbooks on material and energy balances, coauthored with Alan Myers. His textbook on FLOWTRAN with Bob Seader introduced a generation of students to computer-aided process design. More recently, Warren, Bob Seader, and I have published the textbook Product and Process Design Principles, which was the first book to support the idea that product and process design can be taught in the same framework. In 2004, he and Bob Seader were awarded the Warren K. Lewis Award by the AIChE for “careers dedicated to extraordinary educational and research contributions in process systems engineering, especially recognizing their textbooks on process and product design”. Warren’s passion for his research and teaching has not been at the expense of a warm and full family life. All of Warren’s students, collaborators, and colleagues have enjoyed the warm hospitality of their home. He and his wife Diane have two children, Deborah and Benjamin, both of whom received degrees at Penn. Benjamin is currently a graduate student at Berkeley, working on his Ph.D. in psychology. Deborah is now married to Gav Shapiro, and they have two children, so a considerable part of Warren and Diane’s life is centered on their two grandchildren, Joe and Jesse. In 1992, Warren was awarded the CAST Division Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, for “pioneering contributions to education and research in chemical engineering computing through organization, writing textbooks, and developing new algorithms.” One supporting statement was the following: “Another area of work is his conduct of the University of Pennsylvania senior design project. By inducing his colleagues to co-teach this course, and by recruiting a large panel of practicing engineers from the Delaware Valley to suggest real, unsolved problems and to serve as weekly consultants, he has single-handedly turned this course into the jewel of our undergraduate program. Students are inspired to work with unbelievable devotion (sometimes to the exclusion of other courses and the enjoyable social affairs of the senior year). Computer-aided design is the key element of this course.” Another recommender cited Warren not only for his numerous contributions in research, education, and professional service, “but also for his representation and demonstration of the best spirit of chemical engineering in all of his activities, computing and otherwise.” The overall feeling was best summarized by the statement: “It is clear that Warren has started many significant activities related to computing. He has been the leader; the rest of us have followed in his big footprints.”
It is my privilege and pleasure to dedicate this special issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research to Warren D. Seider, on his 65th birthday. I am grateful to the Editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Donald R. Paul, for his enthusiastic support for this effort and to all the authors who have responded in such a generous way to present their best work in Warren’s honor. Publications of Prof. Warren D. Seider Books Seider, W. D.; Seader, J. D.; Lewin, D. R. Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis, and EValuation, 2nd Edition; Wiley: New York, 2004. (Translated in Chinese.) Seider, W. D.; Seader, J. D.; Lewin, D. R. Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis and EValuation; Wiley: New York, 1999. Myers, A. L.; Seider, W. D. Introduction to Chemical Engineering and Computer Calculations; Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1976. (Translated in Polish, Japanese, and Chinese.) Seader, J. D.; Seider, W. D.; Pauls, A. C. FLOWTRAN SimulationsAn Introduction, 3rd Edition; CACHE Corp.: Austin, TX, 1987. ReWiewed Papers Seider, W. D. Time Sharing in Engineering Education. J. Eng. Educ. 1969, 59 (5), 384. Seider, W. D. The Student and His Information Needs. J. Eng. Educ. 1970, 60 (5), 361. Seider, W. D.; Churchill, S. W. Confined Jet Mixing in the Entrance of a Tubular Reactor. AIChE J. 1971, 17 (3), 704. Soylemez, S.; Seider, W. D. A New Technique for PrecedenceOrdering Chemical Process Equation Sets. AIChE J. 1973, 19 (5), 934-942. Evans, L. B.; Seider, W. D. The Requirements of an Advanced Computing System. Chem. Eng. Progress 1976, (June). Ganic, E.; Seider, W. D. Computer Simulation of PotassiumSteam, Combined-Cycle, Electrical Power Plants. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1977, 1 (3), 161-169. Evans, L. B.; Joseph, B.; Seider, W. D. System Structures for Process Simulation. AIChE J. 1977, 23 (5) 658-666. Seider, W. D.; Evans, L. B.; Joseph, B.; Wong, E.; Jirapongphan, S. Routing of Calculations in Process Simulation. Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Des. DeV. 1979, 18 (2), 292-297. Gautam, R.; Seider, W. D. Computation of Phase and Chemical Equilibrium: Part I: Local and Constrained Minima in Gibbs Free Energy. AIChE J. 1979, 25 (6), 991-999. Gautam, R.; Seider, W. D. Computation of Phase and Chemical Equilibrium: Part II: Phase-Splitting. AIChE J. 1979, 25 (6), 999-1006. Gautam, R.; Seider, W. D. Computation of Phase and Chemical Equilibrium: Part III: Electrolytic Solutions. AIChE J. 1979, 25 (6), 1006-1015. Neville, J. M.; Seider, W. D. Coal PretreatmentsExtension of FLOWTRAN to Model Solids-Handling Equipment. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1980, 4, 49-60. Evans, L. B.; Boston, J. F.; Britt, H. I.; Gallier, P. W.; Gupta, P. K.; Joseph, B.; Mahalec, V.; Ng, E.; Seider, W. D.; Yagi, H. ASPEN: An Advanced System for Process Engineering. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1979, 3 (1-4), 319-332. Ross, B. A.; Seider, W. D. Simulation of Three-Phase Distillation Towers. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1981, 5 (1), 7-20.
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White, C. W., III; Seider, W. D. Computation of Phase and Chemical Equilibrium, Part IV: Approach to Chemical Equilibrium. AIChE J. 1981, 27 (3), 466-471. White, C. W., III; Seider, W. D. Analysis of Chemical Reaction Systems. Chem. Eng. Commun. 1981, 9 (1-6), 159174. Prokopakis, G. J.; Seider, W. D. An Adaptive, Semiimplicit Runge-Kutta Method for Solution of Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations. Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam. 1981, 20 (3), 255-266. Prokopakis, G. J.; Seider, W. D. Feasible Specifications in Azeotropic Distillation. AIChE J. 1983, 29 (1), 49-60. Prokopakis, G. J.; Seider, W. D. Dynamic Simulation of Azeotropic Distillation Towers. AIChE J. 1983, 29 (6), 10171029. Seider, W. D. The Process Design Courses at Pennsylvania: Impact of Process Simulators. Chem. Eng. Educ. 1984, 26 (Winter), 26-29, 41-43. White, C. W., III; Seider, W. D. Integration of Combustion Reaction Systems. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1984, 8 (6), 345-354. Chakravarty, T.; White, C. W., III; Seider, W. D. Computation of Phase Equilibrium: Optimization and Thermodynamic Inconsistency. AIChE J. 1985, 31 (2), 316-321. Seider, W. D.; Ungar, L. H. Nonlinear Systems. Chem. Eng. Educ. 1987, 29 (Fall), 178. Colmenares, T. R.; Seider, W. D. Heat and Power Integration of Chemical Processes. AIChE J. 1987, 33 (6), 898-915. Kovach, J. W., III; Seider, W. D. Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation: Experimental and Simulation Results. AIChE J. 1987, 33 (8), 1300-1314. Kovach, J. W., III; Seider, W. D. Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation: Homotopy-continuation Methods. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1987, 11 (6), 593-605. Kovach, J. W., III; Seider, W. D. Vapor-liquid and Liquidliquid Equilibria for the System Sec-butanol, Di-sec-butyl Ether, Water. J. Chem. Eng. Data 1988, 33 (1), 16-20. Seider, W. D. Chemical Engineering and Instructional Computing: Are They in Step?,” Part I. Chem. Eng. Educ. 1988, 22 (3), 134-138. Cygnarowicz, M. L.; Seider, W. D. The Effect of Retrograde Solubility on the Design Optimization of Supercritical Extraction Processes. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1989, 28 (10), 1497-1503. Colmenares, T. R.; Seider, W. D. Synthesis of Cascade Refrigeration Systems Integrated with Chemical Processes. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1989, 13 (3), 247-258. Colmenares, T. R.; Seider, W. D. Synthesis of Utility Systems Integrated with Chemical Processes. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1989, 28 (1), 84-93. Widagdo, S.; Seider, W. D.; Sebastian, D. H. Bifurcation Analysis in Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation. AIChE J. 1989, 35 (9), 1457-1472. Brengel, D. D.; Seider, W. D. Multistep Nonlinear Predictive Controller. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1989, 28 (12), 1812-1822. Seider, W. D.; Brengel, D. D.; Provost, A. M.; Widagdo, S. Nonlinear Analysis in Process Design: Why Overdesign to Avoid Complex Nonlinearities? Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1990, 29 (5), 805-818. Cygnarowicz, M. L.; Seider, W. D. Design and Control of a Process to Extract β-Carotene with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Biotechnol. Prog. 1990, 6 (1), 82-91. Cygnarowicz, M. L.; Maxwell, R. J.; Seider, W. D. Equilibrium Solubilities of Beta Carotene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Fluid Phase Equilib. 1990, 59 (1), 57-71. Seider, W. D.; Brengel, D. D.; Widagdo, S. Nonlinear Analysis in Process Design. AIChE J. 1991, 37 (1), 1-38.
Sun, A. C.; Seider, W. D. Mapped Homotopy-Continuation Algorithm for Global Optimization. In Recent AdVances in Global Optimization; Floudas, C. A., Pardalos, P. M., Eds.; Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1992. Brengel, D. D.; Seider, W. D. Coordinated Design and Control Optimization of Nonlinear Processes. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1992, 16 (9), 861-886. Widagdo, S.; Seider, W. D.; Sebastian, D. H. Dynamic Analysis of Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Towers. AIChE J. 1992, 38 (8), 1229-1242. Koster, L. G.; Gazi, E.; Seider, W. D. Finite Elements for Near-singular Systems. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1993, 17 (5/6), 485-503. Gazi, E.; Seider, W. D.; Ungar, L. H. Control of Nonlinear Processes Using Qualitative Reasoning. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1994, 18, S189-S193. Sun, A. C.; Seider, W. D. Homotopy-Continuation Method for Stability Analysis in the Global Minimization of the Gibbs Free Energy. Fluid Phase Equilib. 1995, 103 (2), 213-249. Banga, J. R.; Seider, W. D. Global Optimization of Chemical Processes using Stochastic Algorithms. In NonconVex Optimization and Its ApplicationssState of the Art in Global OptimizationsComputational Methods and Applications; Floudas, C. A., Pardalos, P. M., Eds.; Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1996. Widagdo, S.; Seider, W. D. Azeotropic DistillationsA Review. AIChE J. 1996, 42 (1), 96-130. Irizarry-Rivera, R.; Seider, W. D. Optimal Interface for the Bridgman Crystallization Process. J. Numer. Heat Transfer, Part A 1996, 29 (3), 227-242. Seider, W. D.; Widagdo, S. Multiphase Equilibria of Reactive Systems. Fluid Phase Equilib. 1996, 123 (1-2), 283-303. Gazi, E.; Seider, W. D.; Ungar, L. H. Verification of Controllers in the Presence of Uncertainty: Application to Styrene Polymerization. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1996, 35 (7), 2277-2287. Winters, S.; Ali, M.; Seider, W. D. An Interactive Approach to Teaching Steady-State Simulation of Chemical Processes. Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ. 1996, 4 (4), 261-268. Gazi, E.; Seider, W. D.; Ungar, L. H. A Nonparametric Monte Carlo Technique for Controller Verification. Automatica 1997, 33 (5), 901-906. Irizarry-Rivera, R.; Seider, W. D. Model-predictive Control of the Czochralski Crystallization Process, Part I: Conductiondominated Melt. J. Cryst. Growth 1997, 178, 593-611. Irizarry-Rivera, R.; Seider, W. D. Model-predictive Control of the Czochralski Crystallization Process, Part II. J. Cryst. Growth 1997, 178, 612-633. Banga, J. R.; Irizarry-Rivera, R.; Seider, W. D. Stochastic Optimization for Model-predictive and Optimal Control. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1998, 22 (4/5), 603-612. Phimister, J. R.; Seider, W. D. Semicontinuous, Pressureswing Distillation. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2000, 39 (1), 122130. Phimister, J. R.; Seider, W. D. Distillate-bottoms Control of Middle-vessel Distillation Columns. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2000, 39 (6), 1840-1849. Phimister, J. R.; Seider, W. D. Semicontinuous, Middle-vessel Extractive Distillation. Comput. Chem. Eng. 2000, 24, 879885. Phimister, J. R.; Seider, W. D. Semicontinuous, Middle-vessel Distillation of Ternary Mixtures. AIChE J. 2000, 46 (8), 15081520.
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Ciric, A. R.; Mumtaz, H. S.; Corbett, G.; Reagan, M.; Seider, W. D.; Fabiano, L. A.; Kolesar, D. M.; Widagdo, S. Azeotropic Distillation with an Internal Decanter. Comput. Chem. Eng. 2000, 24 (11), 2435-2446. Lewin, D. R.; Seider, W. D.; Seader, J. D. An Integrated Approach to Process Design Instruction. Comput. Chem. Eng. 2000, 24 (2/7), 1369-1374. Kanter, J. M.; Soroush, M.; Seider, W. D. Continuous-time Nonlinear Feedback Control of Stable Processes. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2001, 40 (9), 2069-2078. Feng, X.; Seider, W. D. A New Structure and Design Methodology for Water Networks. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2001, 40 (26), 6140-6146. Lewin, D. R.; Seider, W. D.; Seader, J. D. Integrated Process Design Instruction. Comput. Chem. Eng. 2002, 26 (2), 295306. Kanter, J. M.; Soroush, M.; Seider, W. D. Nonlinear Feedback Control of Multivariable Nonminimum-phase Processes. J. Process Control 2002, 12 (6), 667-686. Kanter, J. M.; Soroush, M.; Seider, W. D. Nonlinear Controller Design for Input-Constrained, Multivariable Processes. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2002, 41 (16), 3735-3744. Kanter, J. M.; Seider, W. D.; Soroush, M. Real-time, Nonlinear Control of a Constrained, Nonminimum-phase Process. AIChE J. 2002, 48 (10), 2247-2254. Lewin, D. R.; Seider, W. D.; Seader, J. D. Towards Integrating Design and Control for Defect-free Products. In The Integration of Design and Control; Seferlis, P., Georgiadis, M., Eds.; Elsevier Science: Amsterdam, 2004; Chapter D3. Dai, J.; Kanter, J. M.; Kapur, S.; Seider, W. D.; Sinno, T.
On-lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Point Defect Aggregation in Entropically Influenced Crystalline Systems. Phys. ReV. B: Condens. Matter Mater. Phys. 2005, 72 (13), 1-10. Meel, A.; Seider, W. D.; Soroush, M. Game Theoretic Approach to Multi-Objective Designs: Focus on Inherent Safety. AIChE J. 2006, 52 (1), 228-246. Dai, J.; Seider, W. D; Sinno, T. Lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Defect Evolution in Crystals at Elevated Temperature. Mol. Simul. 2006, 32 (3-4), 305-314. Panjapornpon, C.; Soroush, M.; Seider, W. D. Model-based Controller Design for Unstable, Nonminimum-phase, Nonlinear Processes. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2006, 45 (8), 2758-2768. Adams, T. A., II; Seider, W. D. Semicontinuous Distillation with Chemical Reaction in a Middle Vessel. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2006, 45 (16), 5548-5560. Meel, A.; Seider, W. D. Plant-specific Dynamic Failure Assessment using Bayesian Theory. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2006, 61 (21), 7036-7056. Daniel R. Lewin Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Haifa 32000, Israel ReceiVed for reView October 2, 2006 Accepted October 2, 2006 IE068010H
