Ibrahim, Dauda Kis, Zoltán Tak, Kyungjae Papathanasiou, Maria Kontoravdi, Cleo Chachuat, Benoît Shah, Nilay
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
This work develops a multi-product MILP vaccine supply chain model that supports planning, distribution, and administration of viral vectors and RNA-based vaccines. The capability of the proposed vaccine supply chain model is illustrated using a real-world case study on vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in the UK that concerns both viral vectors (e.g....
Lewin, Daniel R.
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
Even though the COVID-19 pandemic forced all PSE instructors to move their teaching completely online, this has largely not changed most teaching practice, which has retained face-to-face lecturing as the main activity during contact between lecturers and students. This paper presents the case for shifting teaching to active learning by students, m...
Manca, Davide
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
The paper focuses on three different modeling approaches to describe the dynamic evolution of an epidemic. These models have been extensively tested in the field and applied to Italy, one of the countries that most suffered from Covid-19.
Menezes, Brenno C. Sawaly, Mohamed Yaqot, Mohammed Franzoi, Robert E. Kelly, Jeffrey D.
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals worldwide have been overwhelmed and deprived of valuable resources such as bed capacities, medical equipment, personal protection equipment (PPE) stocks, and personnel. These factors imposed unforeseen challenges in the healthcare treatment systems. Mitigating inefficiencies by learning from COVID-19 ...
Kis, Zoltán Tak, Kyungjae Ibrahim, Dauda Daniel, Simon van de Berg, Damien Papathanasiou, Maria M. Chachuat, Benoît Kontoravdi, Cleo Shah, Nilay
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
Vaccine production platform technologies have played a crucial role in rapidly developing and manufacturing vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The role of disease agnostic platform technologies, such as the adenovirus-vectored (AVV), messenger RNA (mRNA), and the newer self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccine platforms is expected to further increas...
Apoorva, Katragadda Karimi, I.A. Wang, Xiaonan
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) launched COVAX in April 2020 to bring together countries and vaccine manufacturers and provide innovative and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. We developed a global supply chain model to optimize the production of the vaccines and allocation to different countries world...
Lewin, Daniel R.
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
The author has been teaching process systems engineering (PSE) courses to undergraduates at the Technion for more than 30 years, evolving his teaching to active learning methods, and in the last five years, to the “flipped class” model. In the spring of 2020, teaching became particularly challenging, since it was taught on-line for the first time, ...
Zhao, Xiang You, Fengqi
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic increases the consumption of respirators. In this work, we propose a novel and effective waste respirator processing system that aims to protect public health and mitigate climate change. Respirator sterilization and pre-processing technologies are incorporated simultaneously to resist viral infection and facilitate un...
Kieslich, Chris A. Alimirzaei, Fatemeh Song, Hyeju Do, Matthew Hall, Paige
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
With the emergence of new pathogens, e.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and the recent novel coronavirus pandemic, there has been an ever-increasing need for novel antimicrobial therapeutics. In this work, we have developed support vector machine (SVM) models to predict antiviral peptide sequences. Oscillations in physicochem...
Zhao, Ning You, Fengqi
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Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
This article addresses food-energy-water-waste nexus (FEWWN) optimization under the COVID-19 pandemic to alleviate the public health and environmental concerns from increasing food waste generation using waste-to-energy technologies. Food waste generation has noticeably increased during the pandemic across the globe. To alleviate the associated hea...
