
You are invited to our talks and poster presentations at the 2024 AIChE Fall Meeting. Prof. Dowling will also co-chair multiple sessions, including two topical sessions on critical minerals: Critical Minerals for the CET: Magnet Recycling (Invited Talks) and Critical Minerals for CET: Rare Earth Elements (Invited Talks). Below are the presentations we are giving at this conference (click on an item to see the abstract):
Talks
Talk 1: 98f - Strategic Supply Chain Optimization for Bio-Jet Fuel Production in the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry. Madelynn Watson, Aline Veronese da Silva, Pedro Gerber Machado, Celma O. Ribeiro, Claudio Augusto Oller do Nascimento, Alexander Dowling. Monday, October 28, 2024, 9:30 AM - 9:48 AM, Room 24A (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Talk 2: 116c - Beyond Price-Taker: Multiscale Optimization of a Wind-Battery Integrated Energy System within the Wholesale Electricity Market. Xinhe Chen, Xian Gao, Radhakrishna Tumbalam Gooty, Darice Guittet, Bernard Knueven, John Siirola, Alexander Dowling. Monday, October 28, 2024, 1:02 PM - 1:18 PM, Room 33A (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Talk 3: 117c - Flexible Technoeconomic Analysis Tools for Evaluating Emerging Power Generation Technologies in Hourly Electricity Markets Using Idaes and Pyomo. Daniel Laky, Radhakrishna Tumbalam Gooty, Maojian Wang, Anthony P. Burgard, Alexander Dowling. Monday, October 28, 2024, 1:12 PM - 1:33 PM, Room 32B (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Talk 4: 193g - Pyomo.Doe 2.0: Improved Usability and Computational Efficiency for Science-Based Design of Experiments (SBDoE). Daniel Laky, Katherine A. Klise, Shawn Martin, Jialu Wang, Bethany Nicholson, John D. Siirola, Alexander Dowling. Monday, October 28, 2024, 5:18 PM - 5:36 PM, Room 33A (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Talk 5: 455d - Inverse Design of Materials with Globally Optimal Topology and Geometry through Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP). Daniel Laky, Alexander Smith. Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 8:36 AM - 8:48 AM, Sapphire Ballroom D (Level 4, Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel).
Talk 6: 456d - Process Systems Engineering Enables Efficient and Sustainable Membrane-Based Critical Material Separations. Molly Dougher, Jason Yao, Andrew Lee, Laurianne Lair, Jonathan Ouimet, William Phillip, Thomas J. Tarka, Chrysanthos Gounaris, Alexander Dowling. Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 9:03 AM - 9:24 AM, Room 33A (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Talk 7: 459d - Teaching Data-Centric Process Control Using Experiential Learning. Alexander Dowling. Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM, Room 31B (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Talk 8: 578d - Variational Inference for Semi-Parametric “Hybrid” Models. Kyla Jones, Alexander Dowling, Daniele E. Schiavazzi. Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 4:24 PM - 4:42 PM, Room 33B (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).

Posters
Poster 1: 4l - Digitalization in Chemical Engineering: Accelerating Scientific Discovery and Enabling Smarter Manufacturing. Daniel Laky. Sunday, October 27, 2024, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Exhibit Hall GH (Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Poster 2: 364ac - Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) from Ethanol: An Integrated Systems Modeling Approach. Madelynn Watson. Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Exhibit Hall GH (Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Poster 3: 364c - Design and Optimization of Integrated Energy Systems with Market Interactions. Xinhe Chen, Alexander Dowling. Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Exhibit Hall GH (Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center).
Sessions
Session 1: 260 - Design and Optimization of Integrated Energy Systems. Chair: Alexander Dowling. Co-chair: Dhabia Al-Mohannadi. Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Sapphire Ballroom I (Level 4, Hilton Bayfront).
Session 2: 292 - Critical Minerals for the CET: Magnet Recycling (Invited Talks). Co-chairs: Alexander Dowling, Christine Duval. Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Room 22 (Upper Level, SDCC).
Session 3: 356 - Critical Minerals for CET: Rare Earth Elements (Invited Talks). Co-chairs: Alexander Dowling, Christine Duval. Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM, Room 22 (Upper Level, SDCC).
Session 4: 437 - Critical Minerals for the Clean Energy Transition (Invited Talks). Co-chairs: Christine Duval, Alexander Dowling. Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 22 (Upper Level, SDCC).
Session 5: 638 - Remediation of Emerging Contaminants and Legacy Compounds. Chair: Alexander Dowling. Co-chairs: Sage Hiibel, Robert Peters, Medha Kasula. Thursday, October 31, 2024, 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Cobalt 501AB (Level 5, Hilton Bayfront).
Session 6: 676 - Data-driven Optimization. Chair: Fani Boukouvala. Co-chairs: Alexander Dowling, Akhilesh Gandhi, Can Li. Thursday, October 31, 2024, 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM, Room 33A (Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center).
For other recent presentations and publications from the group, please visit our publications page: dowlinglab.edu/publications.