This invited lecture was given at the 2nd workshop in the series on IPropBio Workshop at Lisbon,16-17 May, 2022.
In a world with increasing population and finite natural resources that are not uniformly distributed, the challenge for modern society is to satisfy the demands for new and improved products and their sustainable manufacturing [1]. With data showing increased emissions of greenhouse gases resulting in rapid rise of earth’s temperature and other negative developments, urgent action is necessary to tackle the energy-water-environment-health-food nexus through sustainable alternatives. Improvements in orders of magnitude are needed in technologies currently being employed in the conversion of resources to products that sustain modern society. It is, however, questionable if the currently available technologies and/or methods and associated tools for their development are able to deliver the needed improvements. Opportunities therefore exist for chemical and biochemical engineering and related disciplines to deliver truly innovative solutions by managing this complexity [2, 3]. The lecture will highlight the challenges and the opportunities within chemical and biochemical engineering and especially within process systems engineering to tackle the challenges through the development of a new class of systematic methods and computer-aided tools [4], where integration of ideas-disciplines, hybrid model-data analytics, design techniques based on the ‘define-targets and match-targets” paradigm, and a systematic multi-scale analysis-solution approach play important roles. Results from case studies illustrating the main concepts and highlighting aspects of sustainable process synthesis, design and analysis will be presented.
Keywords: Process synthesis; Process design; Sustainability; Process systems engineering
References
1. M Martin, R Gani, I Mujtaba, 2022, Sustainable process synthesis, design, and analysis: Challenges and opportunities, Sustainable Production and Consumption, 30, 686-705.
2. Y Li, J Wei, Z Yuan, B Chen, R Gani, 2022, Sustainable Synthesis of Integrated Process, Water Treatment, Energy Supply, and CCUS Networks Under Uncertainty, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 157, 107636.
3. G Mongkhonsiri, A Anantpinijwatna, P Charoensuppanimit, A Arpornwichanop, R Gani, S Assabumrungrat, 2021, Novel biorefinery-Integrated-Kraft-pulping network for sustainable development, Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process Intensification, 163, 108373.
4. AK Tula, MR Eden, R Gani, 2019, Hybrid method and associated tools for synthesis of sustainable process flowsheets, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 131, 106572.
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