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Industrial reactors are the most potential candidates used to increase profit, yet they are the most neglected in the optimization project in industry. This is due to fear of process engineers to change reaction parameters beyond their usual boundaries because of poor knowledge of reaction kinetics. Conventional methods for evaluating complex industrial reaction kinetics have their own limitations. Chapter 13 introduces a completely new advanced computational technique, namely geometric programing (GP), to model industrial reaction kinetics. Being a new computational technique, the main advantage of GP is that process engineers do not have to assume any form of kinetic equation beforehand; it will be generated on its own from available industrial reactor data. The theoretical basis of GP with its various features, an algorithm of GP, and different case studies are discussed in detail to enlighten the reader about this new technique. How a generated kinetic model can be used online and offline to increase profit from an industrial reactor is described in detail through case studies.