Conceptual design and process intensification specialization

Engineers will be able to design and conceive the industrial plants of the future. They will get familiar with CAPD tools with conceptual approaches of the process and optimisation methods leading to an optimal design of production units. An introductory vision to new generation processes are also proposed, in particular for multitask devices such as reactive distillation or micro-processes.

Syllabus and ECTS credits

Prerequisites

• Strong chemical engineering or process engineering knowledge
• Basic computer tools knowledge (Matlab, VBA, processes simulator)

Skills

• Setting up and optimizing processes
• Designing and following an industrial development project
• Retrofitting of an existing process
• Selecting technical aspects for equipment, arrangement and methods
• Sizing process equipment
• Evaluating the impact of a new streams in a process system
• Making decisions about human resources, financial resource and  technical resources for projects
• Assessing the return on investment of projects
• Working in teams

Activity sectors

• Chemical industries
• Energy
• Engineering consultancy
• ICT and IT industry