Chemical Plant Design

Full course description

This course builds on the previous courses of the Circular Chemical Engineering concentration as you learn how to integrate aspects of energy efficiency, sustainability and circularity in designing a process and plant design of the future. The course provides an overview of project steps required to obtain a chemical plant design and is structured accordingly. First, you learn how to translate a process objective to a process flowsheet including the selection, specification and chemical engineering design of equipment. From various design options, you then select an optimal process design by considering investment and operating costs, safety, environment, energy efficiency, flexibility, circularity etc. Lastly, you learn how to translate the chosen process design into a plant design, in which aspects of sustainability and circularity should also be taken into account.