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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, working in the area of computer modelling and optimisation of Chemical Processes (CPI), including the PhD Thesis underway related to kinetics, process design and operation, with a substantial number of publications in reputed international The group has participated in 28 projects funded by CE (JOULE, ESPRIT and Brite), twelve national projects (CAICYT, CICYT and CIRIT),two (including web agent-based planning), and on-line control in the areas of multipurpose batch, semi-continuous and continuous operation, particularly in relation with the use of computers to achieve this function. In the concourse of those activities several softwares have databases and communication structures for on-line control. In this sense, and given its experience related to industrial applications, The Center for Process and Environmental Engineering (CEPIMA) works as a research group for over 20 years, initially as a result of coordinated action of the UPC Research Group on Chemical Technology and the UPC Environment Center Laboratory. Their research, development, innovation and technology transfer aims to generate an*lysis and management improvement of productive resources in the This approach has guided the specific targeting of the group's activities in the recent years: produced or used. Since for many of these resources, the environment in which we must interact with is the environment, either directly systems that, in turn, interact with the environment), consideration for the environment should occupy a central place in the proposed an*lysis. This consideration can be made with different orientations, and within CEPIMA this has led to the development of different (but to obtain tradeoffs for management decisions, with mixed effects. currently underlying any management system (quality, environmental risk) is required. However, the definition of indicators to term improvement often involves a subjective as*essment of different factors that often conflict, and among which include elements without