Integrating process knowledge

Practitioners who design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy bear an important responsibility to their patients and society. Development of these abilities requires an integration of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that can be acquired only through a structured learning process that includes classroom work, independent study, hands-on practice, and, ultimately, involvement with actual patients. 

Analysis solution Method/process validation Interpreted Integrated information/ knowledge... 

The principle of integral process development [26] covers much more than just the optimization of a process. This approach begins with computer-aided decision procedures in the conception phase. Tools are available in which the process structure is suggested, for example should the process be a batch or a continuous operation The software tool for process synthesis PROSYN uses databases which include knowledge of experts, material data and calculation models for unit operations. Interfaces to process simulation tools such as ASPENPLUS and material databases are also supplied. PROSYN also delivers an economic evaluation of the future production process. 

As seen in the previous chapter, all the approaches used to solve the dynamie optimization problem integrate, at some point, the dynamical system of the ehemieal proeess. In order to obtain more effieiently the values of the optimum profile of the control variable, a suitable model of the system should be developed. That means that the complexity of the model should be limited, but, in the same time, the model should represent the plant behaviour with good accuracy. The best way to obtain such a model is by using the model reduction techniques. However, the use of a classical model reduction approach is not always able to lead to a solution [6]. And very often, the physical structure of the problem is destroyed. Thus, the procedure has to be performed taking into account the process knowledge (units, components, species etc.). 

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