PhD Level Course on "Process-tools Integration"

# The 19 Sep 2012 by Deenesh Babi.

The PhD level course ”Process and Tools Integration” took place at CAPEC from the 12-19 September, 2012. The course lecturers were Dr. Jeff Siirola from Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA, from the 12-14 September and Dr. Zdravko Kravanja from the University of Maribor, Slovenia, from the 17-19 September.

The entire course consisted of six (6) days of lectures. The first three (3) days consisted of lectures based on ”Process Synthesis Review” inclusive of ”Process Synthesis and Design”, ”The Integration of Process Design and Control Systems Design” and ”Outlook And Challenges” with respect to process synthesis from an industrial perspective.

The last three (3) days consisted of lectures based on ”Process Synthesis And Optimization” inclusive of ”Heat Integration-A Mathematical Programming Approach”, ”MINLP Synthesis of HEN Networks” and ”Simultaneous Optimization (Design)/Synthesis And Heat Integration”.

The course was attended by both in house (the DTU) and visiting PhD and MSc students and provided ample food for thought and application with respect to ”Process Synthesis, Design And Optimization”, for the students. Highlights of the course can be seen below.

Dr. Jeff Siirola explaining the production of Acetic Anhydride from Coal-based technologies. Dr. Zdravko Kravanja demonstrating the use of GAMS for HEN optimization Snapshot of students taking Process and Tools Integration Dr. Jeff Siirola explaining the use of Ketene for producing Chemicals Dr. Zdravko Kravanja explaining the use of GAMS to solve MINLP problems related to HEN Group Photo of the Students taking the first part of the course with Dr. Jeff Siirola and Professor Rafiqul Gani (Head of CAPEC) Dr. Zdravko Kravanja explaining the use of GAMS to solve MINLP problems related to simultaneous optimization, synthesis and heat integration Group Photo of the Students taking the second part of the course with Dr. Zdravko Kravanja and Professor Rafiqul Gani