Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Myriant Corporation

Ptt Global Chemical Public Company Limited

Montgomery Alger

Ali Esmaili

Catherine Catino Latshaw

Ramnik Singh

Rajesh Dasari

Vijay Gnanadesikan

Sharad Kumar

The present invention is in the field of producing bio-based commodity organic chemicals such as bio-acrylic acid, bio-acrylonitrile, and bio-1,4-butanediol using renewable carbon sources as feedstock. In the first stage of the present invention, bio-1,3-propanediol is derived from renewable carbon sources through microbial fermentation. In the second stage of the present invention, bio-1,3-propanediol is converted into bio-acrylic acid or bio-acrylonitrile or bio-1,4-butanediol.

Process for manufacturing acrylic acid, acrylonitrile and 1,4-butanediol from 1,3-propanediol

A computer-implemented system and method for producing and distributing at least one product from at least one plant to at least one customer where discretized plant production data, filtered customer sourcing data, forecasted customer demand data, and forecasted plant electricity pricing data are input into a modified genetic algorithm and an electronic processor solves the modified genetic algorithm and outputs the solution to an interface. The system and method is flexible and can incorporate data as it becomes available to yield intermediate solutions for quick decision making.

Methods for improved production and distribution

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