Catalysts of Thought: How LLM Agents are Reinventing Chemical Process Optimization
TL;DR for operators Chemical-process optimisation does not usually fail because nobody has heard of optimisation. It fails earlier, in the less glamorous swamp where someone has to decide what operating ranges are even allowed. Temperatures, separator conditions, pressure drops, utility trade-offs, convergence behaviour, equipment limits: all the tedious things that make optimisation useful and prevent it from becoming a very fast route to nonsense. ...