Procesdesign: Principper og metoder

• Apply a systematic approach for process design
• Identify, gather and analyze necessary data, methods and models for design
• Appreciate complexity of process design & make design related decisions
• Generate and evaluate/screen alternatives for design
• Use computer aided tools & work in groups
• Verify and analyze simulation results
• Perform process economics analysis including uncertainty analysis
• Perform heat integration and design via pinch analysis
• Apply nonlinear programming for process optimization
• Perform life cycle analysis (LCA) to assess environmental aspects of sustainable process design
• Use knowledge to solve practical engineering problems
• Apply chemical engineering principles learned from other courses

The course has two parts:
Part 1) Design a process flowsheet complete with energy and mass balances for a given design problem: Use the systematic “task based methodology”,
task 1-2) formulate objective for design, identify, gather and analyze necessary data for product-process of interest,
task 3) generate/select conceptual process flowsheet & verification (Douglas method for synthesis)/milestone#1
task 4) Perform mass and energy balances
task 5) Sensitivity analysis & consolidate mass and energy balances.

The outcome of this is a verified process flowsheet implementation meeting technical performance criteria for mass and energy balances & product specs / summary documentation & working implementation of the solution in process simulator. milestone#2

Part 2) Process analysis and evaluation of a given design and its improvement with respect to
task 6) Cost estimation (capital & variable/production cost),
task 7) Profitability analysis using economic metrics and sensitivity & uncertainty analysis (Monte Carlo),
task 8) process/heat integration and design of heat exchanger network (HXN)
task 9) Process and flowsheet optimization
task10) Sustainability assessment & comparative assessment.

The final outcome combining the results of all tasks (part 1 and part 2) are compiled in a design project report / final project report & group presentations (milestone#3)

En bachelor i Kemi og teknologi, Bioteknologi, Sundhed og Produktion eller tilsvarende, der omfatter grundlæggende kurser i masse- og energibalancer samt kemisk reaktionsteknik, svarende til 28020 og 28140. In addition, it is highly recommended to take the MSc course 28420 Separation Processes before this course. The 28420 will provide methods and skill set to design separation systems that make up an important part of the process flowsheets.

Forelæsninger og øvelser under vejledning i classroom. Project assignment and group work in databar/computer classroom.

Textbook: “Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design”, L.T. Biegler, I.E. Grossmann, A.W. Westerberg, Prentice-Hall, 1997, ISBN: 0-13-492422-3

supporting texbook (especially for cost and economic evaluation)
Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers 5th Edition by Max Peters,‎ Klaus Timmerhaus,‎ Ronald West,‎ Max Peters.

Minimum 4, Maksimum: 60.

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