Sustainable chemicals
The course is organized as 7 online lectures and 4 Aspen Plus based assignments. There are some reference materials referred to as the source for Aspen Plus software.
The theory deals with the following topics:
- Emissions in the chemical industry and the production of primary chemicals.
- Sustainable approach for the production of primary chemicals.
- Biomass processing and its role in the green future.
- Plastics production and recycling toward a close-loop economy.
During the course, student will be introduced to the software Aspen Plus and will have to go through some basic assignments before being able to participate in the final assignment, which is based on a flowsheet of a process for sustainable production of chemicals.
The final assignment is individual and includes:
- Development of an alternative production process for a specified chemical based on a renewable or a circular feedstock.
- The description of this flowsheet
- The simulation of this flowsheet in a commercial flowsheeter (Aspen Plus).
- Analysis of the results with focus on sustainability criteria as for instance carbon efficiency, energy efficiency, emissions per amount of product etc.