Among the trends for a modern chemicalengineering: CAPE an efficient tool for processintensification and product design and engineering

摘要

To respond to the changing needs of the chemical and related industries in orderboth to meet the today's economy demands and to remain competitive in globaltrade, a modern chemical engineering is vital to satisfy both the marketrequirements for specific nano and-micro scale end-use properties of products,and the social and environmental constraints of industrial meso and-macro scaleprocesses. Thus an integrated system approach of complex multidisciplinary,non-linear, non-equilibrium processes and phenomena occurring on differentlength and time scales of the supply chain, from molecular-scale to theproduction-scales, is required. A modern chemical engineering can besummarized by four main objectives: (1) Increase productivity and selectivitythrough intensification of intelligent operations and a multi scale approach toprocesses control: nano and micro-tailoring of materials with controlledstructure; (2) Design novel equipment based on scientific principles and newproduction methods: process intensification using multifunctional reactors andmicro-engineering for micro structured equipment; (3) Extend chemicalengineering methodology to product design and engineering using the "tripletmolecular Processes-Product-Process Engineering (3PE)" approach; (4)Implement multiscale application of computational chemical engineeringmodelling and simulation to real-life situations from the molecular scale to theproduction scale, e.g., in order to understand how phenomena at a smallerlength scale relate to properties and behaviour at a longer length scale.