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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)


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


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


PSE for SPEED: Our experience – working with industry

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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)



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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”


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


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

http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/pages/contact.php


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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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


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.


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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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


PSE for SPEED: Examples of a sustainable solutions

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Tula et al., CACE, 2017



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Methyl acetate production

(Eastman Chemicals, 1982)



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H2OMeOAc

HOAc

MeOH

Pervaporation

membrane

HOAc

MeOH

H2OMeOAc

HOAc

MeOH

Babi et al., CACE, 2015


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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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


PSE for SPEED: R&D concept

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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


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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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


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


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

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