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Data-Driven Conditional Flexibility Index
Moritz Wedemeyer, Eike Cramer, Alexander Mitsos +1
With the increasing flexibilization of processes, determining robust scheduling decisions has become an important goal. Traditionally, the flexibility index has been used to identi…
Estimating Dense-Packed Zone Height in Liquid-Liquid Separation: A Physics-Informed Neural Network Approach
Mehmet Velioglu, Song Zhai, Alexander Mitsos +3
Separating liquid-liquid dispersions in gravity settlers is critical in chemical, pharmaceutical, and recycling processes. The dense-packed zone height is an important performance…
End-to-End Reinforcement Learning of Koopman Models for eNMPC of an Air Separation Unit
Daniel Mayfrank, Kayra Dernek, Laura Lang +2
With our recently proposed method based on reinforcement learning (Mayfrank et al. (2024), Comput. Chem. Eng. 190), Koopman surrogate models can be trained for optimal performance…
Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Koopman eNMPC
Daniel Mayfrank, Mehmet Velioglu, Alexander Mitsos +1
Reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to tune data-driven (economic) nonlinear model predictive controllers ((e)NMPCs) for optimal performance in a specific control task by optim…
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Dynamic Process Operations with Limited Physical Knowledge and Data
Mehmet Velioglu, Song Zhai, Sophia Rupprecht +3
In chemical engineering, process data are expensive to acquire, and complex phenomena are difficult to fully model. We explore the use of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) f…
Task-optimal data-driven surrogate models for eNMPC via differentiable simulation and optimization
Daniel Mayfrank, Na Young Ahn, Alexander Mitsos +1
Mechanistic dynamic process models may be too computationally expensive to be usable as part of a real-time capable predictive controller. We present a method for end-to-end learni…
Multivariate Scenario Generation of Day-Ahead Electricity Prices using Normalizing Flows
Hannes Hilger, Dirk Witthaut, Manuel Dahmen +3
Trading on the day-ahead electricity markets requires accurate information about the realization of electricity prices and the uncertainty attached to the predictions. Deriving acc…
End-to-End Reinforcement Learning of Koopman Models for Economic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Daniel Mayfrank, Alexander Mitsos, Manuel Dahmen
(Economic) nonlinear model predictive control ((e)NMPC) requires dynamic models that are sufficiently accurate and computationally tractable. Data-driven surrogate models for mecha…
A Recursively Recurrent Neural Network (R2N2) Architecture for Learning Iterative Algorithms
Danimir T. Doncevic, Alexander Mitsos, Yue Guo +4
Meta-learning of numerical algorithms for a given task consists of the data-driven identification and adaptation of an algorithmic structure and the associated hyperparameters. To…
Physical Pooling Functions in Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Property Prediction
Artur M. Schweidtmann, Jan G. Rittig, Jana M. Weber +4
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging in chemical engineering for the end-to-end learning of physicochemical properties based on molecular graphs. A key element of GNNs is the…
Graph Neural Networks for Temperature-Dependent Activity Coefficient Prediction of Solutes in Ionic Liquids
Jan G. Rittig, Karim Ben Hicham, Artur M. Schweidtmann +2
Ionic liquids (ILs) are important solvents for sustainable processes and predicting activity coefficients (ACs) of solutes in ILs is needed. Recently, matrix completion methods (MC…
Graph Machine Learning for Design of High-Octane Fuels
Jan G. Rittig, Martin Ritzert, Artur M. Schweidtmann +7
Fuels with high-knock resistance enable modern spark-ignition engines to achieve high efficiency and thus low CO2 emissions. Identification of molecules with desired autoignition p…
Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasting of Intraday Electricity Prices using Normalizing Flows
Eike Cramer, Dirk Witthaut, Alexander Mitsos +1
Electricity is traded on various markets with different time horizons and regulations. Short-term intraday trading becomes increasingly important due to the higher penetration of r…
Nonlinear Isometric Manifold Learning for Injective Normalizing Flows
Eike Cramer, Felix Rauh, Alexander Mitsos +2
To model manifold data using normalizing flows, we employ isometric autoencoders to design embeddings with explicit inverses that do not distort the probability distribution. Using…
Validation Methods for Energy Time Series Scenarios from Deep Generative Models
Eike Cramer, Leonardo Rydin Gorjão, Alexander Mitsos +3
The design and operation of modern energy systems are heavily influenced by time-dependent and uncertain parameters, e.g., renewable electricity generation, load-demand, and electr…
Principal Component Density Estimation for Scenario Generation Using Normalizing Flows
Eike Cramer, Alexander Mitsos, Raul Tempone +1
Neural networks-based learning of the distribution of non-dispatchable renewable electricity generation from sources such as photovoltaics (PV) and wind as well as load demands has…