Post on 18-Mar-2018
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design (http://www.pseforspeed.com/)
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Company Presentation Rafiqul Gani, Surat Areerat, Yodsathorn Chavewanmas (& Anjan K Tula)
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: Who are we?
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• Established: March 2017 with head quarter in Bangkok
• Owners: Prof Rafiqul Gani; Dr. Surat Areerat; Dr. Sawitree Kalakul, Dr. Amata Anantpinijwatna; Dr. Anjan K Tula; & Prof Mario R Eden
• Expertise: more than 50 years of combined experience in development, implementation and application of state of the art systematic computer aided tools to solve problems
• Services on offer: • Solving problems (improved retrofit process design, process analysis,
identify opportunities for improvements; better problem understanding of product-process, ..…);
• Education & training (problem solving ,software training, …); • Projects (consulting, feasibility studies, what-if analysis, …); • Customized solutions (retrofit, special software, …); • Increase product-process portfolio
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PSE for SPEED: Our experience
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Note: The company is new and really starting from 1st January 2018; however, the personnel has a lot of experience!
• Chemical substitution & solvent screeing: many industrial problems solved (see several joint publications with industry – GSK, AstraZeneca, SCG, Syngenta, AkzoNobel, Mitsubishi Chem Corp, Alfa Laval, ..... (BASF, Bayer, DSM, Total, )*
• Property modelling (predictive methods ) – Alfa Laval, Syngenta, .... Principal collaborators are from academia (USA, Brazil, Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, ....)
• Process synthesis & design* – Ala Laval, Union Carbide (before 1997), Firminech, FMC; Mitsubishi Chem Corp, SCG, ......
• Chemical product synthesis & design* – Syngenta, Astrazeneca, Bayer, Akzonobel, Unilever
• Integrated computer aided systems (ICAS) – Many industral users*
* Vast network of collaborators from academia
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PSE for SPEED: Our experience – working with industry
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Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design (http://www.pseforspeed.com/)
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PSE (Process Systems Engineering): Use of a systematic
approach to problem solving!
CAPE (Computer Aided Process Engineering): Use of
computer aided and systematic approach to solving process
engineering problems!
Scope & Significance of PSE/CAPE is potentially very large
and depends on the application range of the developed
solution approaches.
Takamatsu (1982), Sargent, …. (PSE meeting, 1982)
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design (http://www.pseforspeed.com/)
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PSE-CAPE: Use of computer aided and systematic
approach to solving process engineering problems!
Sustainability: The ability to ”sustain”, or, the capacity
to ”endure”
Sustainable Development: “development that meets the needs
and aspirations of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: Core products of PSE
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Numerical analysis => Simulation
Mathematical Programming => Optimization
Systems and Control Theory => Process Control
Computer Science => Advanced Info./Computing
Management Science => Operations/Business
Are they enough to solve our problems?
=> Behavior of process-product
=> Synthesis/design
=> Manufacture
=> Efficient
problem solving
=> Supply chain
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
Our status on planet earth: we are the master!
Fertilizers
Vitamins
Colorants and
coatings
Plastics
Fuel
Electronics
Pharmaceuticals
Detergents
Nutrition
Healthcare
Mobility
Communications,
Entertainment
Clothing Housing
. . . . . . . .
But, how did we get there and is our dominance or survival threatened? 8
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
Is our future sustainable? The challenge facing us
Only 25% converted to useful products; the rest are waste (we must be to get > 40% useful products) Driolli 2007
We convert resources to products we
need
Use energy,
water, ….
Cause negative
environmental Impacts
Produce
waste
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Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
The choices we need to make
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1. What is the role of manufacturing and product companies – that is,
“commodity” industry vs. “new emerging” technologies?
2. What is the future scope for fundamental contributions?
Value preservation vs.
Value creation
Engineering vs. Science
3. What are the major real world challenges
Globalization, energy, environment, health
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: A new company
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Mission Apply systematic computer aided methods and tools to provide sustainable solutions for a wide range of problems of industrial relevance and research significance, reliably, efficiently and very rapidly
Vision • Novel, innovative, & sustainable solutions can be found for well-
known as well as new chemical processes-products through the appropriate use of models, methods, tools and experience.
• To reach defined goals, corresponding targets that will lead to more sustainable alternatives, must be achieved.
• A “win-win” solution for all parties concerned.
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Problem solution versus managing the complexity
Problems
Problem defined by
• System boundary
• Models (of different types, sources, ....)
• Data (from different sources, )
• Multi-objectives & multi-disciplines
• ........
PSE4SPEED = systematic solution of problems by
efficient management of the complexity
Design
Synthesize
Operate
Plan
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Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: Services we offer
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• Solving problems (improved retrofit process design, process analysis, identify opportunities for improvements; better problem understanding of product-process, ..…);
• Education & training (problem solving ,software training, …); • Projects (consulting, feasibility studies, what-if analysis…); • Customized solutions (retrofit, special software, …); • Increase product-process portfolio • Software license (as part of membership fee)
Active Personnel: Yodsathorn Chavewanmas, Anjan K Tula, Rafiqul Gani
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PSE for SPEED: Examples of a sustainable solutions
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Tula et al., CACE, 2017
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PSE for SPEED: Examples of a sustainable solutions
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Methyl acetate production
(Eastman Chemicals, 1982)
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: Examples of a sustainable solutions
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H2OMeOAc
HOAc
MeOH
Pervaporation
membrane
HOAc
MeOH
H2OMeOAc
HOAc
MeOH
Babi et al., CACE, 2015
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Can the current methods, tools technologies deliver?
Can our current methods and tools solve the
problems of our interest? Do we need a new
class of software tools that promote innovation?
Well-known PSE tools: ASPEN, gPROMS, HYSIS, PROII, ChemCad, ….(design, optimization, control, plan-schedule operations, …)
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Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: Systematic model-based approach
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Model
Information
(knowledge,
data)
Analysis
Planning
Production
Design
Environment
Operation
Process/ Product
Business
Simulation
System
Problem
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: Our expertise
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Synthesis-design of energy efficient processes; Batch process synthesis-design; Computer aided flowsheet design
Properties modelling; Process modelling; Development of customized models; Computer aided modelling tools
Chemical product synthesis-design (single molecule, blends, formulations, devices); Product evaluation; Computer aided chemical product design
Integration product-process; Process-control; Process intensification-synthesis; Integrated computer aided model-based ... systems for sustainable development
Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
Integrated multidisciplinary approach
Experiments REALITY
Simulations
VIRTUAL REALITY
Provide realistic model parameters
Verify theoretical solutions
System
under
study
Optimized
design?
Model
system
Optimized
design?
Guidance and insights for experiments
• Solution approaches
Integrated modeling, experiments and synthesis
Ability to find predictive- innovative solutions
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Sustainable Product-Process Engineering, Evaluation & Design
PSE for SPEED: Our Tools
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• ICAS dedicated to manage the complexity through a systems approach
• ICAS algorithms based on a systematic solution approach
• ICAS allows single- and multi- dimensional problems to be solved efficiently, reliably, consistently and robustly
• ICAS improves productivity by allowing sharing of common knowledge between different groups of people
ProCAPD & ProCAFD (ICAS): combines computer-aided tools for modelling, simulation,
property prediction, synthesis/design, control and analysis into a single integrated system
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PSE for SPEED: Our Tools
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• The first and only computer aided tool available for users in industry as well as academia
• Useful for chemical substitution problems
• Useful in retrofit design-analysis
• Most used tools are Property-Prediction (ProPred) and computer aided molecular design (ProCAMD and SolventPro) – already used by many companies
Gani & coworkers, 1984, .....2018
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PSE for SPEED: Our Tools ProCAFD
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• No other similar tools exit in the market
• Is able to do what commercial simulators are not able to do
• Significantly reduces the time a researcher, engineer, student, etc., spends time on problem solution
• Innovative, new idea generation, & inspiring
Gani & coworkers, 1997, ......2017