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Project title: Sustainable process synthesis and design
Host organization: DTU
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Gürkan Sin
Duration: 36 months
Objectives: Develop next generation tools and methods for sustainable process synthesis and design in particular:
- Focus on concept generation and screening using multi-criteria economics and environmental metrics at early stage of process development.
- Link predictive modeling and uncertainty analysis to ensure robust and predictive solutions.
- Identify risk-averse solutions for optimization under uncertainties.
Expected results: Development of improved sustainability analysis methodology and tool for sustainable process design including (i) expanded life cycle inventory (LCI) database with missing information. In particular GC+ property models are developed to estimate environmental properties of compounds relevant for life science industries, (ii) LCI database extended with uncertainty analysis for quality assurance. A decision support tool using optimization based framework complete with solution and analysis methods (including global uncertainty analysis to verify robustness of solutions). The tool is validated at selected process-product development studies together with industrial partners ALAVAL and UNILEVER.
Planned secondments:
- ALAVAL, M9, 3 months, process design of oleo-chemicals
- UNILEVER, M24, 1 month, formulated products
- IMPERIAL, M30, 1 month, optimization techniques