Pieter L J SwinkelsDelft University of Technology | TU · Department of Chemical Engineering
Pieter L J Swinkels
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Conceptual design is the first major stage in process design and engineering, involving mainly chemical engineering. Design involves a lot of decision making to obtain preferred functionality by creating suitable structures, behavior, and performance. This chapter focuses on the introduction of technical skills as a core necessity. It presents a pr...
To assess the impact of atmospheric aerosols on health, climate, and air traffic, aerosol properties must be measured with fine spatial and temporal sampling. This can be achieved by actively involving citizens and the technology they own to form an atmospheric measurement network. We establish this new measurement strategy by developing and deploy...
The potential benefits of applying reactive distillation (RD) processes are taxed by significant complexities in process development and design. The design problem is formulated in the wider context of process development and engineering. From that perspective design methods for RD units developed over the last decades are classified and described....
Conceptual process design was used as a tool in solving an environmental problem concerning a molybdenum containing wastewater stream. The specific case involves a new styrene monomer plant that will generate a molybdenum (800–1000 ppm) wastewater stream also containing up to 30 g/l organics, 300 ppm aluminum and small amounts of heavy metals. A wa...
This contribution proposes a multilevel modelling approach as a tool for the decision-making task in the early design stages of reactive distillation processes. The proposed model involves formulating the simulation problem at different levels of increasing degree of complexity, in which mass, energy and momentum balances are conveniently applied t...
The development of a dynamic mechanistic model and an optimal sampled-data LQG controller for industrial detergent spray drying processes are considered. A model-order reduction procedure which preserves the identity of the variables was shown to lead to poor closed-loop behavior. The optimal controller takes account of the dynamic behavior of the...
The interactions between economics and thermodynamic efficiency in the design of reactive distillation (RD) processes are explored. Our motivation derives from taking a sustainable lifespan perspective, where not only economics, but also exergy-efficiency and controllability should be borne in mind. Furthermore, novel process configurations might b...
Effective design procedures contribute to meeting the increasing societal demands for high(er) plant performance and shorter time to market by goal driven process development. The place of systematic design frameworks in such design procedures has been recognized and consequently resulted into developments of systematic, hierarchical and multi-spac...
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The extensive use of robotics called for by ambitious programs aiming to redesign industrial production processes, as the Industry 4.0 in the European Union, is dramatically transforming the safety landscape in process industries. With the progression of Industry 4.0, a new generation of asset integrity management (AIM) approach is anticipated through the implementation of digital science technologies, such as machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, smart equipment, and cyber-physical systems (CPS), in an integrated process based on condition monitoring (CM) data and dynamic risk assessment methods.
In this framework, the need for new approaches to Process Safety and Asset Integrity Management in the process industries is evident.
This project aims to explore the challenges, identify primary research problems, and establish collaborative research teams.
