Industrial Process Design Skills

Full course description

In this skills course, teams of students operate at the pilot plants of the Brightlands Chemelot Campus and use knowledge from courses such as Chemical Engineering, Engineering in a Circular Economy, Thermodynamics and Engineering Physics, Basic Programming Skills as well as the second-year elective courses. You no longer merely optimise these plants from an economic perspective, but also consider environmental and social criteria for optimization. You propose a strategy for developing a pilot process for the fabrication of biofuel from algae, which must result in technologically viable solutions and also demands the combination of process analysis and simulations, mole and energy balances and product life cycle analysis.