Sequential Selection for Minimizing the Variance with Application to Crystallization Experiments

Caroline M. Kerfonta, Sunuk Kim, Ye Chen, Qiong Zhang and Mo Jiang

The American Statistician, 2024, vol. 78, issue 4, 391-400

Abstract: For many crystal-based products (e.g., pharmaceuticals, energy storage), the size uniformity is not only a key quality attribute, but sometimes also an indicator of other attributes such as solid purity. This article proposes a sequential selection approach to find a proper experimental setting that leads to high uniformity, or equivalently, small variance for crystal sizes, from the advanced slug flow reaction crystallization process of a model crystal, called manganese oxalate hydrate. The proposed sequential selection approach contains a Bayesian adaptive method to incorporate new uniformity measurements in each step and two design acquisition functions to improve the selection of the most promising experimental setting in terms of minimizing the variance. We study the performance of the proposed approach through multiple synthetic numerical studies, as well as a case study based on data from slug flow crystallization experiments. Throughout these studies, the proposed approach shows competitive performance in identifying the best experimental setting.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2314480

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