This review discusses challenges and solutions for AI in chemical engineering.
problem Challenges in applying classical machine learning to chemical engineering data.
method Identifying four data characteristics and discussing their applications and solutions.
result Current research extends data science and machine learning to handle chemical engineering data challenges.
Surrogate models improve chemical process equipment design and optimization.
problem Design and optimization of complex chemical processes.
method Development and validation of CFD simulators, active learning strategies, and regression techniques.
result Gaussian process regression outperformed other techniques in benchmarking.
CRNN discovers chemical reaction pathways from data.
problem Challenging to infer reaction pathways for complex systems.
method Neural network approach that satisfies fundamental physics laws.
result CRNN autonomously discovers reaction pathways from species concentration data.
New method predicts activity coefficients for binary mixtures without using physical descriptors.
problem Predicting activity coefficients for unexplored binary mixtures.
method Probabilistic matrix factorization model.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art models requiring less training effort.
Chemical databases store information in text representations, and the SMILES format is a universal standard used in many cheminformatics software. Encoded in each SMILES string is structural information that can be used to predict complex chemical properties. In this work, we develop SMILES2vec, a deep RNN that automat…
Machine learning recently has been used to identify the governing equations for dynamics in physical systems. The promising results from applications on systems such as fluid dynamics and chemical kinetics inspire further investigation of these methods on complex engineered systems. Dynamics of these systems play a cru…
Review and compare model order reduction methods for process engineering.
problem Creating computationally efficient yet accurate models for real-time applications.
method Nonlinear model order reduction methods, including general-purpose and tailored approaches for chemical processes.
result Comparison of eight model order reduction methods applied to an air separation process model.
The paper develops a Gaussian process model for predicting chemical efficacy.
problem Statistical methodologies for analyzing chemical databases are limited.
method Conditional Gaussian process models with Tanimoto distance and a scaling parameter.
result Predictive performance improves when accounting for chemical space correlation.
AI model identifies chemical agents in MCI with high accuracy.
problem Identifying chemical agents in mass casualty incidents.
method Reverse engineered signs/symptoms, trained using ANN, BDT, and WISER.
result WISER outperformed ANN and BDT in identifying chemical agents.
Upper bound on CRN reaction rates derived using information geometry.
problem Challenging task of deriving an upper bound on reaction rates of nonlinear, discrete CRNs.
method Information geometric approach using natural gradient.
result Validated through numerical simulations, demonstrating faster convergence in specific CRNs.
Software helps teach latent variable methods in multivariate data analytics.
problem Challenges in understanding multivariate data analytics for students.
method Interactive software for comparing latent variable methods.
result Builds intuition on choosing methods and interpreting coefficients.
Geometric modeling for human food and chemical sensitivities.
problem Modeling biochemical processes in humans with sensitivities.
method Geometric approach to biochemical modeling.
result Geometric models improve understanding of sensitivities.
NLP techniques improve drug discovery by analyzing chemical and protein text.
problem Improving drug discovery through better analysis of chemical and protein text.
method Natural language processing techniques applied to biochemical entities.
result Enhanced prediction of molecular properties and design of novel molecules.
Improved molecular property prediction using WL embedding in GNNs.
problem Limited performance of GNNs in predicting molecular properties.
method Explored Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) embedding to replace GNN layers, enhancing representability and performance.
result WL embedding consistently improves GNN performance across multiple datasets.
GraphAF generates chemically valid molecules efficiently and accurately.
problem Generating chemically valid molecular structures while optimizing chemical properties.
method Flow-based autoregressive model combining autoregressive and flow-based approaches.
result GraphAF generates 68% chemically valid molecules without chemical knowledge rules and 100% with rules, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
AI learns to design chemical processes efficiently.
problem Designing efficient chemical processes.
method Hierarchical reinforcement learning and graph neural networks.
result Quick learning in various decision spaces.
A new method uses active learning to improve chemical simulation efficiency.
problem Efficiently estimating equilibrium-based chemical simulations.
method Sequential data-driven approach using Gaussian process uncertainty.
result Significantly reduced number of function evaluations.
Deep RL finds efficient pathways for sugar to chemicals.
problem Finding efficient pathways from sugar to value-added chemicals.
method Markov decision process with deep reinforcement learning.
result Promising preliminary results in efficient biomass conversion.
Deep learning algorithms excel at extracting patterns from raw data, and with large datasets, they have been very successful in computer vision and natural language applications. However, in other domains, large datasets on which to learn representations from may not exist. In this work, we develop a novel multimodal C…
Future advancement of engineering applications is dependent on design of novel materials with desired properties. Enormous size of known chemical space necessitates use of automated high throughput screening to search the desired material. The high throughput screening uses quantum chemistry calculations to predict mat…
Review of automation's role in chemical discovery, emphasizing future challenges.
problem Improving automation's contribution to chemical discovery.
method Analysis of exemplary studies and open research directions.
result Future autonomous systems need improvement in data handling, model building, and experiment automation.
Chemical transport models (CTMs), which simulate air pollution transport, transformation, and removal, are computationally expensive, largely because of the computational intensity of the chemical mechanisms: systems of coupled differential equations representing atmospheric chemistry. Here we investigate the potential…
DeepSIBA predicts biological effects of chemical structures using graph neural networks.
problem Predicting biological effects of chemical structures for drug discovery.
method Siamese Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for structure-biological effect mapping.
result Highly accurate predictions of biological effects for structurally dissimilar compounds.
Machine learning predicts molecular crystal stability.
problem Predicting the stability of molecular crystals.
method Supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to classify and predict lattice energy.
result Data-driven assessment of chemical groups' contribution to crystal stability.
MoFlow generates chemically valid molecular graphs from latent representations.
problem Generating chemically valid molecular graphs from latent representations is challenging.
method MoFlow uses a flow-based approach with Glow for bond generation and a novel graph conditional flow for atom generation, ensuring chemical validity and efficiency.
result MoFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance in molecular graph generation and optimization.
A new method for inferring latent states in Markov jump processes.
problem Intractable exact inference for Markov jump processes.
method Entropic matching within expectation propagation.
result Superior performance in approximating the mean of the posterior process.
Deep neural networks improve chemical reactor control using MPC.
problem Improving control of chemical reactors with neural networks.
method Training neural networks on model predictive control (MPC) for reactor control.
result Neural network can mimic MPC control inputs while maintaining constraints.
Bio-oil molecule assessment is essential for the sustainable development of chemicals and transportation fuels. These oxygenated molecules have adequate carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms that can be used for developing new value-added molecules (chemicals or transportation fuels). One motivation for our study stems fr…
Engine forecasts NO2, O3, PM2.5, PM10 with high accuracy.
problem Accurate long-term air quality forecasting.
method Convolutional LSTM network trained on grid data.
result 4-day forecasts significantly outperform simple benchmarks.
Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks improve fault detection and identification in manufacturing.
problem Detect and identify faults in chemical processes to ensure optimal operations.
method Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks (BRNNs) with variational dropout.
result BRNNs provide uncertainty estimates for fault detection and identification.
Generative models accelerate molecular dynamics by four orders of magnitude.
problem Femtosecond time steps limit access to slow molecular processes.
method Deep generative modeling framework that accelerates sampling.
result Quantitative characterization of equilibrium ensembles and dynamical relaxation processes.
Study defines and optimizes bank reliability using LR and PSO.
problem Lack of reliability concept in financial services.
method Logistic Regression (LR) for initial estimation, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for optimization.
result Optimal financial ratios maximize bank reliability.
During reactive transport modeling, the computational cost associated with chemical reaction calculations is often 10-100 times higher than that of transport calculations. Most of these costs results from chemical equilibrium calculations that are performed at least once in every mesh cell and at every time step of the…
CASTER predicts drug interactions using chemical substructures.
problem Identifying potential drug-drug interactions during drug design.
method CASTER uses sequential pattern mining, auto-encoding, and dictionary learning to predict DDIs.
result CASTER outperformed state-of-the-art models and provided interpretable predictions.
ChemGrapher uses deep learning to automatically convert chemical compound images into accurate graphs.
problem Automatically converting chemical compound images into accurate graphs with correct bond multiplicity and stereochemical information.
method Developed a deep neural network model for optical compound recognition, including segmentation and classification models.
result Significant error reductions in bond multiplicity and stereochemical information compared to existing tools.
Identification of high affinity drug-target interactions is a major research question in drug discovery. Proteins are generally represented by their structures or sequences. However, structures are available only for a small subset of biomolecules and sequence similarity is not always correlated with functional similar…
Improved chemical reaction prediction using augmented NLP models.
problem Predicting chemical reactions from text representations.
method Data augmentation and Transformer architecture for SMILES representation.
result Significantly improved accuracy in predicting chemical reactions.
Stochastic fluctuations of molecule numbers are ubiquitous in biological systems. Important examples include gene expression and enzymatic processes in living cells. Such systems are typically modelled as chemical reaction networks whose dynamics are governed by the Chemical Master Equation. Despite its simple structur…
HLTF generates chemically valid 3D molecules with improved topology control.
problem Generating chemically valid 3D molecules is challenging due to bond topology errors.
method HLTF uses a latent multi-scale plan for global context and a constraint-aware sampler to suppress topology-driven failures.
result HLTF achieves high validity and uniqueness on QM9 and GEOM-DRUGS datasets.
Safe offline RL for chemical reactors using input convex neural networks.
problem Safe control of exothermic polymerization reactors using historical data.
method Gymnasium-compatible simulation, behaviour cloning, implicit Q-learning, input convex neural networks (PICNNs).
result Offline RL with convex action correction outperforms traditional control approaches.
DeepVARMA predicts chemical industry index trends using LSTM and VARMAX models.
problem Forecasting the chemical industry index for economic analysis.
method Combines LSTM and VARMAX models to predict nonstationary series.
result DeepVARMA achieves best prediction accuracy and adaptability.
CRYSPNet predicts crystal structures from chemical compositions.
problem Predicting crystal structures of solids is challenging and computationally expensive.
method CRYSPNet uses a neural network to predict crystal properties from chemical composition.
result CRYSPNet outperforms alternative methods and is robustly validated.
Review of automation's role in chemical discoveries.
problem Improving autonomous discovery in chemistry.
method Classification of discovery types, assessment of autonomy, case studies.
result Rapid advancements in automation and machine learning are transforming experimentation and modeling.
MFRL-BI controls manufacturing processes without needing accurate models.
problem Model inaccuracies in complex manufacturing systems.
method Model-free reinforcement learning with Bayesian inference.
result Demonstrated to perform well in a nonlinear CMP process.
CRPS improves GP-based sequential design for chemical space.
problem Finding molecules with specific properties in synthetic chemistry.
method Threshold-weighted CRPS as acquisition function for GP models in sequential design.
result Improved performance in molecule research with CRPS-based strategies.
Local PCA detects intrinsic parameterization of complex thermo-chemical state-spaces.
problem Detecting intrinsic parameterization of complex thermo-chemical state-spaces.
method Local PCA applied to local clusters of data.
result Local PCA finds meaningful parameterization linked to local stoichiometry, reaction progress, and soot formation processes.
Chemical structure elucidation is a serious bottleneck in analytical chemistry today. We address the problem of identifying an unknown chemical threat given its mass spectrum and its chemical formula, a task which might take well trained chemists several days to complete. Given a chemical formula, there could be over a…
A new RL framework optimizes drug-like molecules synthetically.
problem Optimizing drug-like molecules for specific criteria.
method Deep Reinforcement Learning framework for chemical space optimization.
result Outperforms existing methods in pharmacological optimization.