Process systems engineering deals with the overall system behaviour and how the individual units should be combined to achieve optimal overall performance. Important topics are multi-scale process modelling, operation and control, design and synthesis, simulation, statistics and optimization. Applications include distillation, reactors, system biology and subsea processing (SUBPRO).
Small-scale experimental rigs have been built to study anti-slug control and novel distillation arrangements. In most cases, control is an "add-on" to enable and improve operation, but the anti-slug rig demonstrates how control in some cases can be used to operate the system in a completely different manner. The Kaibel distillation column is a 6 meter high and 5 cm in diameter and can be used to study "thermally coupled" columns, including the threeproduct Petlyuk column and the four-product Kaibel column (Skogestad). The group also has responsibility for several smaller batch destillation columns which are frequently used for demonstration purposes (Preisig). A new biochemical lab came into operation in 2018/19. It has unique equipment for studying control of such processes, including fermentation (Bar).
Bookable Instrument List
- UV-VIS Spectrophotometer Thermo Scientific Genesys 10S