This book presents a multi-objective optimization framework for optimizing
chemical processes. The proposed framework implements a link between process
simulators and metaheuristic techniques. The proposed approach is general, and
there can be used any process simulator and any metaheuristic technique. This
book shows how to implement links between different process simulators such as
Aspen Plus®, HYSYS®, SuperPro Designer®, and others, linked to metaheuristic techniques implemented in Matlab®, Excel®, C++, or other programs. This
way, the proposed framework allows optimizing any process flowsheet implemented in the process simulator and using the metaheuristic technique, and this
way the numerical complications through the optimization process can be eliminated. Furthermore, the proposed framework allows using the thermodynamic,
design, and constitutive equations implemented in the process simulator to implement any process
