Simulation in Process Engineering

Objectives

Design, construction, and operation of plants are a principle responsibilities of chemical and process engineer. Computer-aided process design programs are widely used.
While finite element calculations are common in the layout of mechanical construction and apparatus development, process simulation is a tool of increasing importance in basic engineering.
Our summer school course will exactly focus on this type of computation that has switched from science to modern engineering. Topics are unit operations like heat exchanger, mass transfer and column distillation.
Properties of pure compounds and/or their mixtures are needed in almost every aspect of process/product design.
The most widely used option for obtaining this data is the use of property models. Some of the problems the users face here are, which models to use, what the accuracy is or what to do if the model’s parameters are not available? The user also faces the same questions when using specialized software.
Model development and validation without experimental data is not possible. Therefore, we place an emphasis on systematic plans for property measurements and collection that better and more versatile models can be developed.

The complete course is full-equivalent to process engineering and energy technology (PEET) master module “Simulation of plants” (5 CPs (European credit transfer system)).

Schedule_Simulation_in_Process_Engineering.pdf
Course schedule

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Jaime Escobar, EAFIT University Medellin, Columbia
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Schütz, Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany (coordinator)
Hubert Stell, Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany
Jaybalan Tamahrajah, PhD student, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Hasan Jubaer, Student of MSc in Process Engineering and Energy technology at Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany

Learning Methods

Lectures, case studies, final discussions

Teaching Language

The course will be held in English

Credit points

5 ECTS credit points + certificate.