EWD course will develop simulation models focusing on three case studies (TBD). SPICE is a process intensification (PI) toolbox. SPICE stands for Systematic Process Intensification of Chemical Enterprises. SPICE automates the generation and optimization of process flowsheets including intensified alternatives without postulating their existence a priori. This generates intensified process flowsheets with improved performance, allows innovation in process design, and brings technical innovation with operational excellence, sustainability and energy efficiency. GRAMS (Generalized Reaction-Adsorption Modeling and Simulation) platform captures both reaction and adsorption dynamics in columns with solid catalysts, porous adsorbents or both. It is based on a one-dimensional, pseudo-homogeneous, non-isothermal, non-adiabatic and non-isobaric model that is extensively validated using experimental data from literature for different adsorption-reaction systems. Using GRAMS, both simulation and optimization can be performed for a wide range of configurations of a packed columns containing pure catalyst as in a fixed bed reactor, pure adsorbent as in a multi-step pressure swing adsorption (PSA) process, homogeneously-distributed uniform mixture of adsorbent and catalyst as in a cyclic sorption enhanced reaction process (SERP), or heterogeneously-compartmentalized adsorbent and catalyst as in a layered SERP.
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