“…This is particularly important for process synthesis where numerous design candidates exist and the identification of the most desirable one is always computationally expensive. The DP models introduced in this paper, together with those for heat exchanger networks (Yang et al, 1996;Yan et al, 2001), mass exchanger networks (Yang et al, 1999;Yan and Huang, 2002), and distillation column networks (Lou and Huang, 2002;Yang et al, 2000), are valuable for synthesizing highly controllable process systems. For heat-integrated reactors, stability is a very important issue, as addressed by Chen and Yu (2003) and Luyben (1998).…”