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 consists of classroom lectures followed by group work on the project assignment.

The course lectures follow the task-based systematic design methodology, which introduces systematic methods and concepts for process design as follows:
Lecture 1: Introduction to process design
Lecture 2: Process flowsheet synthesis & verification (Douglas method)
Lecture 3: Flowsheet performance evaluation – a simple strategy
Lecture 4: Reactor Design, analysis & sizing -rigorous models
Lecture 5: Separation process design & sizing -rigorous models
Lecture 6: Sensitivity Analysis in Process Design
Lecture 7: Capital and Production Cost Estimation
Lecture 8: Economic Assessment and Uncertainty Analysis
Lecture 9: Process and Flowsheet Optimization
Lecture 10: Heat Integration and HXN design
Lecture 11: Sustainability Analysis in Process Design

The project assignment which is worked in groups of 3 members contains three parts that builds on each other:
Part 1. Scope of Design
Implement the conceptual process in a simulator of your choice (Aveva or excel spreadsheet). Report and discuss mass and energy calculations (Lectures 1 to 5).
Part 2. Process economics and uncertainty analysis.
Perform cost estimation, economics, sensitivity & uncertainty analysis, and discuss the results (Lectures 6 to 8)
Part 3. Advanced process analysis (e.g. process optimization, heat integration, and sustainability analysis)
Perform optimization, heat integration, and sustainability analysis, compare/benchmark other alternatives, and discuss the results. (Lectures 9 – 11).
Each part will be followed by selected group presentations (each group will present at least one part of the assignment).

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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